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Once upon a time,
In a place far away,
Was barely any rhyme;
And barely any play

People worked theirselves to death,
And where they fell, they stay

Breathing another's breath,
And the dead barely decay

They sit there forever,
Glued to the ground,
And every now and then,
They try to make a sound

The people all around,
Never tried to care;
For fear of what would happen,
If they would even dare

The dying groan in pain
While the dead can't even squeak;
And though the living can,
They never try to speak

The dead are in a coma,
They've seen everything around,
Their unblinking eyes can't move,
But they hear every sound

People talking about them,
And stabbing them in the backs
But they couldn't care less about their lacks

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