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Work and pray,
Live on hay.
You’ll get pie
In the sky
When you die—
It’s a lie!

— Fritz Leiber A Pail of Air (1964)

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Source: “Bread Overhead” (p. 121); originally published in Galaxy Science Fiction, February 1958; alluding to the song The Preacher and the Slave.
Work: A Pail of Air, 1964
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