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When I Look At The World

It doesn't fill me with sorrow.

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Michael David Cobb Bowen
Dec 20, 2022
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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 A…

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