The Cement Garden
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1:06:18
Tuesday, August the twenty-fifth.
1:06:22
Dear mum.
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You've been dead
for twenty-one days.

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No one mentioned you today.
1:06:30
Jack was in a horrible mood as usual.
1:06:35
At lunch we mixed together two cans
of soup and Julie talked about Derek.

1:06:41
Jack has not changed
his clothes since you died,

1:06:44
except for his jeans
when he wet the bed.

1:06:48
He never washes at all.
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He's beginning to smell...
1:07:01
Satisfied?
1:07:21
Sandman
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Sandman come
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and bring Thomas and Sue
and Jack and Julie

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- Crockie.
- Crockie,

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lots and lots of lovely dreams
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and no horrid ones.
1:07:34
And no horrid ones for anyone
in the whole universe,

1:07:38
except for bad people.
1:07:41
Thank you, please.
1:07:58
He just wanted someone
to tell him what to do.


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