Chloe’s Reviews > Slouching Towards Bethlehem > Status Update

“ children who have never been told, as I was told, that golden lads and girls must all as chimney sweepers come to dust.”

“ praying as if the rain that it would happen: ’ let it come, clear the rot and the stench and the stink, let it come for all of everywhere, just so it comes and the world stands clear in the white dead dawn.”

“ demand to know who deserted them who betrayed them who’s going to make amends. We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget. We forget the loves and the betrayals alike forget what we whispered and what we screamed forget who we were.”

“and maybe no one else felt the ground hardening and summer already dead as we pretended to bask in it”