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A Human Life Ain’t Worth Much

Zach J. Payne
3 min readMar 13, 2019

This becomes especially clear when you start listening to the actions of the people who go on about the sanctity of life.

The men, duly sworn to represent their communities, who buy pearls to clutch so they can mock the women and the children who are fighting for gun control, who fight with blood and vigor and tears, so maybe we can make up one day this year and not have a mass shooting somewhere in this country.

The Speaker of the House, who doesn’t believe in pushing forward with a Green New Deal or impeaching the most corrupt president to ever be sworn into the leadership of the company. The third most powerful person in the federal government, who instead of dropping some money on some extra lawyers or investigators, has a crack team of merch designers creating a “Nancy clapback” tote-bag.

By God, her scathing applause sure stopped The Donald dead in his tracks. He hasn’t been able to do anything since.

The corrupt business conman, working with The Donald to destroy the Republic, who was sentenced to serve less jail time than the man in the next courtroom over, whose only crime was having a joint in his pocket. He’s serving life, Paul Manafort will be out in less than a decade.

The millions of people who believe in the ineffectual racist symbolism of a gigantic boarder wall, who care…

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Zach J. Payne
Zach J. Payne

Written by Zach J. Payne

(He/They) Poet. Thespian. YA Novelist.

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