When the last living thing Has died on account of us, How poetical it …

Kurt Vonnegut
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When the last living thing Has died on account of us, How poetical it would be If Earth could say, In a voice floating up Perhaps From the floor Of the Grand Canyon, It is done. People did not like it here. ✨ Kurt Vonnegut (2011). A Man Without a Country, p.137, Seven Stories Press
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When the last living thing Has died on account of us, How poetical it would be If Earth could say, In a voice floating up Perhaps From the floor Of the Grand Canyon, It is done. People did not like it here. ✨ Kurt Vonnegut (2011). A Man Without a Country, p.137, Seven Stories Press

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