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Herr Hitler led the Nazis
…To kill six million Jews.
Ukraine was starved by Stalin;
…The Times left out that news.
And Mao? Forty million.
…And Leopold just ten.
And Tojo’s tiny numbers
…Of five are really thin.
Gas chambers and the Gulag,
…The farms raped of their yields,
Were killing rooms for devils
…Like Pol Pot’s killing fields.
More than did all the monsters
…Kill in their bloody quests
Have we in America
…Killed while still in their nests.
Our count? Now sixty million.
…And what’s our killing room?
We kill them in their nurs’ry:
…We kill them in the womb.
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© Dennis Allen Lange and thebardonthehill.wordpress.com, 2018.
The Bard on the Hill 
Powerful, Dennis. And we need to keep saying it and keep saying it so that people can’t hide from it so easily.
I’m writing a book about the matter. I hope to be finished in about 6 weeks. It will combine politics with the issue of abortion in a way I’ve not seen done before. Hopefully, it will make people think and change.
Great! I truly believe that it’s our job, as people called and gifted to create good literature, to make those changes in our world. Sometimes I start to feel as if I’m just fooling myself to think that what one person writes can really make any difference to speak of, but then I’m always reminded of Thomas Paine. One man with a few little booklets played a massive part in birthing, and later salvaging, the most important revolution the world has ever known. Go for it, Brother!
I found a wonderful quote by Thomas Paine in the first sentence of Common Sense that I’m going to use very early in the book. “…a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. “
You hit the nail on the head bard.