Between what could be and what is are barbed wire and tank traps, walls, armed borders, reconnaissance patrols, old wounds and new suspicions, hatred, fear, corruption, ignorance, intolerance, cold war, threats of hot war, fallout, trouble compounded into trouble, for details of which consult your morning paper.

“Could Be” from the book Overkill and Megalove (1963) also the 1949 radio broadcast