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The Calculus of Pain

from In A Time Of Lies by Eric Lee Green

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Copyright 2013,2021 Eric Lee Green

For Prisoner #137
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little girl stares at the symbols in chalk
on the blackboard on the schoolhouse wall
and does not understand at all

and a man draws near the classroom door
to ask questions whose answers
she does not know
come to teach the lessons
of the calculus of pain

nine years old and a number on her chest
into the camera the little girl stares
the bruises on her face glow in the flash
the bruises on her face for questions asked

they came to liberate her
they came to bring her freedom
freedom
freedom
but what they bring to her
is the calculus of pain

The man comes with a shovel for her hands
leads her out of the schoolhouse door
empty swings sway in the school playground
where no children laugh, where no children play
sun shines but there's no light today
and they take her to the woods
as bombs explode in the distance

was it a bullet
or was it a knife
or was it a rope
that ended her life
that taught to her the final lesson
of the calculus of pain

on the museum wall
a picture torn and bloodied
no one knows her name
or from where it was she came
no one knows her name

on the wall above are the words
never again
never again
but somewhere else
in this world
another girl learns the lessons of
the calculus of pain

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from In A Time Of Lies, released August 20, 2021
All lyrics and music by Eric Lee Green

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White trash blues
Three chords and the truth.

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