they came first for the nouns, And I didn&#x27;t speak up because I wasn&#x27;t a noun; And then they came for the personal pronouns, And I didn&#x27;t speak up because I wasn&#x27;t a personal pronoun; And then they came for the gerunds, And I didn&#x27;t speak up because I wasn&#x27;t a gerund; And then . . . they came for me . . .