Uncle History and Morse Code

It’s a game Uncle History plays—
Supposing some people
Were never born
Stalin, of course
And Pol Pot
But also Humphrey Bogart
And Bridgette Bardo
He goes from horror
To the trivial
Hitler, Captain Kangaroo
It’s all Morse code
Dit dit
No Freud
Dot dot
No Lotte Lenya
He keeps Brecht
But doesn’t know why
Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste…
Neither pertains to Uncle

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