you don't have to in poetry

You don’t have to KILL young Hitler with your time machine
just prop him up as an ironic outsider artist so he doesn’t go into politics.

You don’t have to KILL young Hitler with your time machine
just drop him in the distant past and let him scream his hatred at the dinosaurs.

You don’t have to KILL young Hitler with your time machine
just plop him in the distant future where he’d be too confused to lead an army.

You don’t have to KILL young Hitler with your time machine
just chop off his hands and rip out his tongue so that he can’t hurt anyone.

You don’t have to KILL young Hitler with your time machine
just use your time riches to bribe everyone around him so that he never succeeds.

You don’t have to KILL young Hitler with your time machine
just put him in a holodeck where he thinks its real and fulfills all his needs.

You don’t have to
but if you’re out of other ideas
and you’re in a pinch
still go try and do it
because if time travel is true
it’s still the right thing to do.