And Samuel told the people

And Samuel told all the words of the Lord unto the people that asked of him a king.
And he said, This will be the manner of the king that shall reign over you:
He will take your sons, and appoint them for himself, for his chariots, and to be his horsemen; and some shall run before his chariots.
He will take your sons and appoint them for himself, jesters and clowns, desperate for his nod and his smile counting their worth by the number of bootsteps on their back .
And he will appoint him captains over thousands, and captains over fifties; and will set them to ear his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and instruments of his chariots.
He will take your grounds , and what is below it, and what is above it, and your homestead and your ancestral land.
You will foul your water, poison your welcomes and murder your brother to gain his glance.
And he will take your daughters to be confectionaries, and to be cooks, and to be bakers.
He will take your daughters of the full breasts and wide of hips to fill his beds and the beds of his courts and of his jesters.
He will paint them in blood and ash and charcoal and cloak them with rags. And you will admire their decay and celebrate their farts.
And he will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your oliveyards, even the best of them, and give them to his servants.
Yea and your beaches , and high places and the things you revere will be mortgaged for debts your sons and their sons even to the tenth generation will not pay off.
And he will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and give to his officers, and to his servants.
And he will take your menservants, and your maidservants, and your goodliest young men, and your asses, and put them to his work.
And put them to his pleasure and to his robbery. You will pay to be in the queue to wash his asses and clean his sty . Yea, you will fight to sleep with his dogs
He will take the tenth of your sheep: and ye shall be his servants. (1 Samuel 8:10-17 KJV)
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Who will not die?

Who will not die?


The rich will die
The poor will die
The king will die
The slave will die
The murderer will die
The victim will die
The falcon will die
The hunter will die
The gunsmith will die

Who will not die?

The man will die
The woman will die
The child will die
The young man will die
The old man will die
The fetus will die
The maggot will die
The butterfly will die
The lizard will die
The frog will die

Who will not die?

The saint will die
The sinner will die
The priest will die
The parishioner will die
The judge will die
The prisoner will die
The soldier will die
The assassin will die
The conjurer will die
The sacrificial will die
The sacrificer will die

Who will not die?

The musician will die
The dancer will die
The innocent will die
The guilty will die
The harbinger will die
The crop will die
The forest will die
The ant will die
The elephant will die

Who will not die?

The palace will die
The hovel will die
The village will die
The city will die
The lineage will die
The kingdom will die
The empire will die

Who will not die?

Death will not die
Laughter will not die
Charity will not die
Faith will not die
Pain will not die
Struggle will not die
Liberation will not die

Memories will not die.

Memories of who you were
Memories of who you touched
Memories of smiles brought
Memories of laughter taken
Memories of widows fed
Memories of hope.

Memories will not die.


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