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The Annals of History

Review the annals of history
   Murder upon murder you'll see

Start with Adam and Eve's son, Cain
   Who murdered his brother Abel in vain

Then there's Moses, the saintly lawgiver
   Who murdered an Egyptian taskmaster and shivered

The greatest of playwrights, Shakespeare, didn't hedge his bets
   He wrote of murder in 'Julius Caesar,' 'Macbeth' and 'Romeo & Juliet'

What of Abe Lincoln's assassin, Mr. John Wilkes Booth?
   His name lives all these years later, verily and forsooth

There's Lee Harvey Oswald, shot JFK -- ended Camelot
   Else his name wouldn't be worth a pee in a pot

Can't forget the serial killers, whose souls are damned:
   Richard Speck, John Wayne Gacy, Son of Sam
 
Not to mention the 'iconic' socialists you all know:
   Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, Mao, and Idi Amin also
   
In this century you don't have to rack your brain
   We've had Osama bin Laden, Bashar Assad, Sadam Hussein...

As for 'professionals,' Bonnie & Clyde are your bank robbers
   And how about ('Scarface') Al Capone for a celebrity mobster?

So, you want your name to be ever remembered?
   Just commit a few murders: Behead and dismember!

Copyright © Gershon Wolf | Year Posted 2018

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Tom Cunningham Date: 10/25/2018 2:26:00 PM Funny how we remember those who do the bad things. To some murder is like swatting a fly. I won't be remembered,hopefully. Interesting write Gershon. Tom Login to Reply Tom Cunningham Date: 10/26/2018 2:04:00 AM I meant being remembered for something horrendous like who you mentioned. Gershon Wolf Date: 10/25/2018 2:34:00 PM Interesting observation, Tom---not wanting to be remembered! … Another observation might be that every one of the thug killers mentioned was a Radical Leftist, if not a pure revolutionary. They tend to have the least regard for human life … And so it goes... ~ gw