<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=340391" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Untitled Poem - I</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">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,</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Alan+Dugan">Alan Dugan</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=340391" data-title="Untitled Poem - I de Alan Dugan" data-description="Once, one of my students read a book we had. She was doing a history assignment on the decline and fall of the Roman Empire and crying. When I asked her why she said Because. All those people died. I said that if you start to cry for the dead You ..."></div> </div> </div>

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