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There was a child who didn't know what fear was and he wanted to find out.
So his friends said, Cold shiver down your back,
legs go funny,
sometimes your hands no not your hands yes your hands tingle,
it's more in your head,
it's in your stomach,
your belly
you shit yourself,
you can't breathe,
your skin your skin creeps,
it's a shiver a shudder
do you really not know what it is?
And the child said, I don't know what you mean.
So they took him to a big dark empty house everyone said was haunted.
They said, No one's ever been able to stay here till morning,
you won’t stay till midnight,
you won't last an hour,
and the child said, Why, what's going to happen?
And they said, You'll know what we mean about being frightened.
And the child said, Good, that's what I want to know.
So in the morning his friends came back and there was the child sitting in the dusty room.
And they said, You’re still here?
what happened?
And the child said, There were things walking about,
dead things,
some of them didn't have heads
and a monster with glowing -
and his friends said, Didn't you run away?
and the child said, There were weird noises like screams
and like music but not music,
and his friends said, What did you feel?
and the child said, It came right up to me
and put out its hand,
and his friends said, Didn't your hair
your stomach
the back of your neck
your legs
weren't you frightened?
And the child said, No, it's no good, I didn't feel anything,
I still don’t know what fear is.
And on the way home he met a lion and the lion ate him.
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