RANDOM JACK POETRY HOUR: HISTORY
Manifest
Humanity has a gift
for rationalizing behavior that exceeds
the boundaries of morality
Ripping open the earth for coal
Destroying the land for timber
Slaughtering the buffalo to kill a culture
Spreading smallpox to claim a land
Internment of the Japanese
Relocation of the Cherokee
Annihilation of the Jews
War for oil on foreign lands
We did it all for God
We did it all for destiny
We did it all to appease the gods
We did what we had to do
We were chosen
We will choose
Nothing is manifest
Nothing is written
To believe that it is
is to justify the evil deeds
that men do
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