Untitled - CSUN ScholarWorks - California State University, Northridge
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Their ankles and shins are sliced open from the stained<br />
glass splinters that they climbed through. They play hide<br />
and go seek until the man climbs off the cross and then they<br />
run like never before through any stain glass window they<br />
can find. They run straight howe to see their parents climb<br />
in through their bedroo:th wiridows into bed, dead tired<br />
from work.<br />
Since the kids begah playing inside the church, Jesus<br />
Christ hasn't said a fuc.kingthi:rig. He wakes up with the<br />
noise ofchiidre� . laugn§g and washes the �ried blood off<br />
his eyes withtheback ofhis fist. Asif he were thawing out<br />
of hibernation he climbs doWll to the. carpet beneath him.<br />
He stretche� his arms �d p@ls plaster from tfte back of his<br />
fucking rotting hand. H:� stands there for a while fighting<br />
off eternal sleep. He watches fue kids run by. He doesn't<br />
yell at them or throw fucking i'?ckS at them, he doesn't<br />
even console them, he just groans like a pathetic asshole<br />
down the hollow hallway toward the drinking fountain. He<br />
sobs, dragging his bleeding feet across the carpet. His<br />
hysterical wails eventuaJly end when he reaches the<br />
motorized drinking fountain. He fucking waits to catch his<br />
breath before he takes a long drink that ends up soaking his<br />
dried bloody beard that ha:s gro� thicker in death. The<br />
fucking spirits all sit up to. 'Watch. They stare amazed at his<br />
giant fucking forearms that havert't .moved a single brick in<br />
thousands ()f y�ats. They 'Watch his dusty calves expand<br />
like tanks as he treads back down the hall. By the time he<br />
gets p�ck to lUs cross pe is y a \\"nipg so f\lcl