Once, one of my students read a book we had. <br />She was doing a history assignment on <br />the decline and fall of the Roman Empire <br />and crying. When I asked her why <br />she said Because. All those people died. <br />I said that if you start to cry for the dead <br />You won’t have much time for anything else. <br />Besides, after all the city people were killed <br />or died off, because their cultures got too high, <br />the barbarians kept some peasants alive <br />for their food value. Some barbarian raped <br />some peasant woman who produced <br />a child who ultimately produced you <br />and me, so there is this family continuity, <br />so don’t cry, it’s obvious, look around! <br />This is the reason why we Americans <br />are a nation of peasants and barbarians,<br /><br />Alan Dugan<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/untitled-poem-i-2/
