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Schmaltz
Carl Hauck

They deployed the cameras, and the world turned kindnIt's easy to be a saint when you got them judging all the timenThey wore their masks for hiding, we wore our own for showingnAnd at 12:01 on New Year's morning, by God, it started snowingnnRemember when we weren't thinking, honey,nOf consequences, of hidden fences, but everything but?nnThey hid the truth until the truth turned pretty, then told it every chance they gotnLike playing cards at a filthy bar where the frescoes tell of CamelotnThey studied dictionaries while we read obituariesnSevered tales of ups and downs, neighbors we never cared aboutnnRemember when we were jaded, honey?nWe moved like distant globes, and we always came aroundnnThey found one face-down in the gutter with whiskey in his veinsnHe slept for days and days and days until they tucked him in to staynWith discount ink on ragged paper, creased up at the foldnWe wrote a letter with bloody prints, he was more than 54 years oldnnRemember when we were outraged, honey?nWe'd pull the car into a parking lot and sort things outnnA flutter in the eye of the stranger in the casketnAs the sound of youth jingled around the roomnIt mocked our civil decency, and sent us back home thinkingnAbout forgetting all our deadlines, at least for a day or twonnBut we returned to yelling mindless insults sealed by rubber gripsnAnd we plotted the death of the man across the hallnWe dulled our senses and forced pretension, cursing petty thingsnBut sharpened words spoken out of turn did nothing to the governmentnnRemember when we were drifting, honey,nAway from walks and dismal talks about who was better off?nnRemember when we were happy, honey?nNeither do I


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