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Broken Alabaster

May 14, 2024
By JackWriter BRONZE, Greensboro, North Carolina
JackWriter BRONZE, Greensboro, North Carolina
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I know you’ve have heard so many tales

Of influence and success

And foremost among them

Is that of Zachariah White


And I know that those stories

So polished and so sanitized

Leave out important details

As to how the story ends


So sit now and come listen

Cross your legs and rest your hands

As I sing a song and tell you

What happened to the Whites


Well the father Zachariah

The eldest there among them

Was meeting with a friend

When he met a grizzly end


On October twenty second 

He went and met an axe

Straight to the head 

Oh, they swung til he was dead

Oh, october nights

Oh, What happened to the Whites


His wife was named Mariah

She was set on fire

In her bed

Alive


She tried to reach the phone

But they knocked her prone

And poured the gas on top

Oh, how bright she burned

Oh, flames so bright

Oh, what happened to the Whites

 


Their first son was named Jake

He was driven to the lake

And they chopped off his head

With a sturdy blade 


They tore him into pieces

And fed him to their pigs

And fed the pigs to dogs

Oh, feeding pigs and dogs

Oh, his death was out of spite

Oh, what happened to the Whites


Fiona was the daughter

Well a man, he went and shot her

In the chest six times

Out by her house 


He saw her in the doorway

And he took his aim

And the bullets came

Oh, how the bullets came

Oh, she saw the muzzle light

Oh, What happened to the Whites


The second son was named Sylvester

A wealthy stock investor

Until they cut his brakes

And he went off the side

Oh, how well he died


Down a rocky hill

Really quite the kill

Oh, that rocky hill

Oh, the turn was tight

Oh, What happened to the Whites


The final son was named Sebastian

Oh the way they thrashed him

The lone survivor of the family

Met a grievous injury


They took a saw to his throat

And hung his body with a rope

And put his head in a bloody bag

Oh, they took it far away

Oh, what a horrid sight

Oh, What happened to the Whites


Oh, What happened to the Whites

They were alabaster 

Alabaster

Alabaster white


Alabaster

Alabaster

Alabaster

Alabaster

Alabaster

Alabaster

Broken alabaster

What happened to your white?

Oh it was only right


The author's comments:

This was originally a song


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