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Painted Hearse

from Negatives 1 by Mark Beasley

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It was a day when no one felt that great – routine the only thing that spurred us on our way. A friend of mine said, “Let’s do something for a change. I want to put a smile on everybody’s face. I want to make it all okay.”

So we drove through town in a painted hearse, pretending to raise all the dead at work, but all we did was cause a scene and break the hearts of the living. So I went straight home and I tore my clothes. And I cried myself to sleep, falling fast into a dream.

When I awoke I felt this darkness all around – no radiant sky above, below no holy ground. At once I knew what this place was I had found, so I curled back up and hoped to die. But this ache I had kept keeping me alive.

So I wandered down to the river Styx and dipped myself seven times in it. But God just laughed and said, “You fool, that only works in the Jordan.” Then he reached right down, handing me a towel, and he said, “At least you tried, that’s enough to make things right.”

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from Negatives 1, released June 22, 2014

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