A Brief Moment of Clarity Broke Through the Deafening Hum, But It Was Too Late

The Great Leap Forward Poured Down Upon Us One Day Like A Mighty Storm, Suddenly And Furiously Blinding Our Senses.

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Mechanical Sounds Cascaded Through the City Walls and Everyone Reveled In Their Ignorance

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We Stood Transfixed In Blank Devotion As Our Leader Spoke To Us, Looking Down On Our Mute Faces With A Great, Raging, And Unseeing Eye.

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Alone and Unaware, the Landscape Was Transformed In Front of Our Eyes

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The Fear Is Excruiating, But Therein Lies the Answer

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Error Has Turned Animals Into Men, and to Each the Fold Repeats

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We Left the Apes to Rot, But Find the Fang Still Grows Within

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Finally, As That Blazing Sun Shone Down Upon Us, Did We Know That True Enemy Was The Voice Of Blind Idolatry; And Only Then Did We Begin To Think For Ourselves.

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Millions Starved And We Became Skinnier And Skinnier, While Our Leaders Became Fatter And Fatter.

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And By Our Own Hand Did Every Last Bird Lie Silent In Their Puddles, The Air Barren Of Song As The Clouds Drifted Away. For Killing Their Greatest Enemy, The Locusts Noisily Thanked Us And Turned Their Jaws Toward Our Crops, Swallowing Our Greed Whole.

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