"When I was kid, my father said
Hell was a great feast.
He said the people at the table
had these..."

“When I was kid, my father said

Hell was a great feast.

He said the people at the table

had these long arms with no elbows,

and they were trying to feed themselves

and they were starving.

He said Heaven was a great feast, too.

He said the people at the table

had these long arms with no elbows,

and they were feeding each other

and they were full.

I think this was supposed to be

a story about selfishness or about

how Hell is self-inflicted, but I think

it’s a story of short-sightedness. I think

it’s about how circumstances do not define us,

but we’ve got to look past our elbowless arms,

or we’re going to keep starving

our way through this.”

- A SHOT IN THE DARK, by Ashe Vernon (via latenightcornerstore)
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Published on April 08, 2017 22:30
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