IV. That was almost the end of my marbles. Confiscated, I choked back the tears. I hung onto a handful of favourites. That disappeared over the years.
II. When I was a child I had marbles. They brought admiration and fame. They were pretty to look at and marbles. Was always my favourite game. . We played all the summer days.
III. There were almost four hundred until the black day. I discovered how high they would fly to the sky. If you used them for tennis instead of a ball...
I. Did anyone see my last marble. As it rolled out and over the floor?. It fell through a hole in the corner. Of a room in a town on a tour. . It's lonely without your last marble.
Curl up tight into a ball. Curl my body against the soil. Staring up here. At the cathedral wall. I will sleep tonight. . Be a baby. Forget it all. Be a baby.
In the after silence fighting leaves behind. I try to think it over. But my mind's gone blind. I lost the right to argue somewhere down the line. . I had to tell.