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It wasn't horrible because I did something about it. It wasn't a tragedy.

I am in fact practicing (EDIT: this came out wrong, I meant attempting) clarity and concision. So listening to other people's tragedies and what they went through--which always comes out rant-like--is helping me tell my piece the right way, with absolute adhesion to the truth.

Partly that's a scam, they show you a cartoon of a madman and tell you "that's why he's mad, sweating, screaming, shaking, accusing, because he's stupid" then after that inb4, that poisoning of the well, nobody respects that stereotype until it's you who's mad, sweating, screaming, shaking, accusing, and being called stupid. And then it's too late. First they came for the Jews right? Wrong, first they came for the madmen, and perfected their extermination techniques with them, and nobody said anything, nobody visited them. And then they came for the Jews, and then everybody else. I remember it starting with the Jews, in Holocaust museums it starts with communists, in America it starts with Jews sometimes and Socialists other times, it changes all the time. But it never ever starts with the mad (Although Communist is close enough, they were thoroughly accused of being mad, Salvador Allende did medical research on the subject to vindicate them).

Putting it here in full, best I can do:

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[0th they came for the ranting crazy persons

to figure out all the ins and outs of abduction and execution

but I won't even include them in this poem

Because I was not and still am not a crazy person]

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First they came for the Communists

And I did not speak out

Because I was not a Communist

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Then they came for the Socialists

And I did not speak out

Because I was not a Socialist

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Then they came for the trade unionists

And I did not speak out

Because I was not a trade unionist

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Then they came for the Jews

And I did not speak out

Because I was not a Jew

.

Then they came for me

And there was no one left

To speak out for me



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