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Salute to City of Angels’ son!
He wrote, he wrote, he wrote
And he wrote…
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Kristallnacht came casting lead ballots,
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The summary execution of my brothers, sisters, women, men and children is so commonplace that it becomes numbing ‘white’ noise in the minds of an entire continent.
