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People started falling asleep and not waking up. Not in their beds, I mean. On the bus, at work, in the bath. I remember the roads on the first day. It was chaos. Everyone was terrified. There had to be cleanup missions, mass cremations, all ceremony tossed aside in the urgency.
Problem is, after the first hundred volunteers died, people stopped collecting the bodies. Roads had to be closed off because no one would go near the crashed cars. We can't use the Biology classroom anymore because Billy died there two weeks ago. Dude just fell asleep in the middle of class. His sister stayed with him when we all left.
They wouldn't let her back out again.
On TV, the politicians keep saying things like "We know it's hard", "We need to keep moving", "We need to get the economy back on its feet."
They stand there in their million-dollar hazmat suits and tell us that we're all in the same boat.
And I think about Billy's sister.
And the screams when they wouldn't let her out.
And the awful silence when the screaming stopped.
And I think...
Never mind.
I Guess it's for the best?
Problem is, after the first hundred volunteers died, people stopped collecting the bodies. Roads had to be closed off because no one would go near the crashed cars. We can't use the Biology classroom anymore because Billy died there two weeks ago. Dude just fell asleep in the middle of class. His sister stayed with him when we all left.
They wouldn't let her back out again.
On TV, the politicians keep saying things like "We know it's hard", "We need to keep moving", "We need to get the economy back on its feet."
They stand there in their million-dollar hazmat suits and tell us that we're all in the same boat.
And I think about Billy's sister.
And the screams when they wouldn't let her out.
And the awful silence when the screaming stopped.
And I think...
Never mind.
I Guess it's for the best?
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