If You Lean Your Head Out Far Enough

Joan Baez: Sad-Eyed Lady of the Low Lands..1972

Do you believe, said Candide,
that men have always
massacred each other
as they do today,
that they have always been liars,
cheats, traitors, ingrates,
brigands, idiots, thieves,
scoundrels, gluttons, drunkards,
misers, envious, ambitious,
bloody-minded, calumniators,
debauchees, fanatics,
hypocrites, and fools?
Do you believe, said Martin,
that hawks have always
eaten pigeons
when they have found them?

--Voltaire
Candide

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