People think that
The world has
Gone to hell
That it's gotten
So violent but
The world never
Got violent
There is no "got"
The world has
Been violent since
The very beginning
Cain killed Abel
The third person
On the planet
Killed the fourth
We weren't even
Able to make it to
Three people before
Somebody was a murderer
At one time
A third of the
People on the planet
Were murderers
A third of the
People in the "hood"
Aren't murderers
A third of the
People who own guns
Aren't murderers
Even a third of the
People in jail
Aren't murderers
San Quentin
Alcatraz
Folsom prison
Are safer than
The book of Genesis
You thought Compton
And Baghdad were tough?
Try downtown Eden
When the sun goes down
There was murder
And violence since
Person three
One couple had
Two boys who
Had the world
To themselves
And one of them
Claimed "This town
ain't big enough
For the two of us"
Kane killed 25%
Of the world's
Population
That's more than
Stalin,
Hitler,
Idi Amin,
Pol Pot,
King Herod,
Genghis Khan,
Manifest destiny,
Typhoid,
Cancer,
Aids,
And cooties
All combined
There's no
Such thing as
The "Good ole days"
There was like
One good day
It was half a day
Adam and Eve
Were naked,
Alone, and
In an oasis
Lunchtime came
People got hungry
Apples were eaten
Boom
Hiroshima