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Chorus

Female | Age unspecified | 3 to 5 minutes
Starts on page 5

EXTRACT: We're fucked/Totally fucked/ Rooted/ The /water's crap/ It comes down like that/ It's them chemicals/ It's the / shit everywhere/ It's the stuff they put in the ground/It's the stuff they take out of the ground/ They say it's the plastic/ It's the spray/It's in the air/ It's in the soil/ It's in the water/ It's in the food/ What food!

Contains coarse language
Contains adult themes

Woman

Female | Age unspecified | Under 3 minutes
Starts on page 67

EXTRACT: There was a river here once ... It ran through our place ... marked our boundary. I remember it... It hasn't run in years. Not like it did when I was a girl. Just a trickle now. Not even that most of the time. Just a swamp. The cattle don't know. They wander in there. Get stuck. It takes a day to get them out. Most you don't find. Until summer. When it's dry. Just the bones then.Not like before. In my grandfather's time.


Baby

Gender unspecified | Child | 3 to 5 minutes
Starts on page 83

EXTRACT: I know what's making you sick. I know why you're so unhappy. I know why you're miserable I'm just a baby and perhaps that's why I see things with fresh eyes and I'm not afraid to be simple and to speak the unsavory truth. All we've got to do is sit down, we've got to take a bit of time and we've got to work out the things that matter to us, that really matter to us, and we've got to be smart and we've got to be fearless..

Contains coarse language
Contains adult themes