so when exactly did it all go to hell?

so when

exactly did it all go to hell

in a handbag.

can we get a specific date on when

we went

over the edge

and off the cliff as far as civilization

goes.

was it Hitler,

or Stalin, maybe Pol Pot, Vlad 

the Impaler,

or Nero.

or how about H. H. Holmes,

the serial killer,

or Ted Bundy,

or Jack the Ripper,

maybe Dahmer.

Epstein?

perhaps it was when the Ayatollah

took hostages

in Iran,

or Saddam Hussein in his reign

of terror

tortured and killed

thousands.

perhaps it was when

Japan bombed

Pearl Harbor,

or Berkowitz, the Son of Sam,

ran wild,

or the Boston

Strangler had the world

tied up in knots,

and don't forget

James Earl Ray?

Oswald,

Sirhan Sirhan,

all good candidates.

was it Booth on the balcony

with his revolver,

or Richard Speck and the nurses,

the sniper

on the Texas tower,

Manson and his minions

committing murder,

the BTK killer?

Caligula?

Judas Iscariot and his bag

of silver.

maybe 911,

or October 7.

or just Eve handing Adam

an apple

in the Garden of Eden?