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Viral Contagion

the chambers of Auschwitz are never far away ashes do not disperse genocide that easily cracked skulls in Rwanda don’t break away from bone master’s lost conscience agent orange is not yet whiter than white Saigon holds more memories than a musical killing fields in Cambodia famine in the Yemen should speak a clear message to what true hardship is all I have to do is wear a mask and wait for an injection though there is no vaccination yet for stupidity in the face of what is a minor incursion of freedom compared to slaughter and crusades for a false crown

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Date: 5/14/2021 9:16:00 AM
Congratulations!
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Date: 5/13/2021 1:37:00 PM
Oh so true, Kai, and so well said. Ah, that someday there might be a "vaccination...for stupidity!" Nice work.
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Kai Michael Neumann
Date: 5/14/2021 1:29:00 AM
Thank Milton. Kind wishes, Kai
Date: 5/13/2021 12:23:00 PM
A powerful write, Kai! We take so much for granted. Blessings, Kim M
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Kai Michael Neumann
Date: 5/14/2021 1:33:00 AM
Thanks Kim. I rather wear a face mask in peace, than a gas mask in war. Kind wishes, Kai

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