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When I Look At The World - by Michael DC Bowen

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It doesn't fill me with sorrow.

Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when published Who really cares? Who's willing to try? To save the world, That's destined to die When I look at the world It fills me with sorrow Little children today Are really going to suffer tomorrow -- Marvin Gaye, 1971 I can remember crying to myself alone in my expensive Brooklyn Co-op 30 years ago listening to the late Marvin Gaye singing on what many Americans believe to be the best album of all time. It’s hard to be a person of any sensitivity and not be profoundly moved by everything this album is. Yet when I look at the…

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