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CHAPTER 5

BARUCH:

And on this day waves of soiled air

rising from the pavement; sparks of glare

C: Don’t forget—you gotta go towards the East side. This is the West. When you get up on the street—go East!

D:

The chariots shall rage in the streets

they shall justle one against another in the broad ways

they shall seem like torches

they shall run like the lightnings

C: Oh, shit. She shoulda got out at the next stop.

E: If I don’t hear from him. I will die—there’s the D! Mwah! Go! Mwah!

JEREMIAH:

The heart is deceitful above all things,

and desperately wicked—who can know it? Thus saith the Lord. Saith the Lord:

I remember thee,

thy kindness, the love of thine espousals, when thou went after me in the wilderness,

in a land that was not sown

I will yet plead with you, saith the Lord

What iniquity have you found in me

that you have turned from me

that you are gone so far from me

yet return again to me, saith the Lord

How can you say: I am not polluted?

Thou hast forsaken me

and walked after the imagination of thy own heart.

You are a wild ass, used to the wilderness

that traverses the high places

that snuffeth up the wind at her pleasure

all they that seek her will not weary themselves

thou hast played the harlot with many lovers

For this shall the black earth mourn

and the heavens above be black; because I have spoken it,

I have purposed it and will not repent

neither will I turn back from it

Be astonished, Oh ye heavens at this, and be horribly afraid

be ye very desolate

Saith the Lord.