Attention K-Mart Shoppers
There has been an incident in
the ladies’ lingerie section
a broken person with no other
hope for meaning in his life
than death and a headline
Has shot and killed five
hostages, wounded eleven other people, and then
Killed himself
The police and paramedics are
here and the incident, ,
Is under control.,
The mall is safe for you to continue shopping
For items of denial
Attention grade school students,
someone jealous
Of the attention you are getting
because of your potential
Has stolen his parents’ guns
And entered the building in
order to kill
As many of you as possible
Because he is angry because
Parts of his brain dealing with
sympathy
For others, no different than
ours only
More so, are missing,
don’t worry, the President will
make a speech
And we’ll enact new gun laws
In your honor
Good Evening, this just in,
A disappointed actor has broken
in
To a studio shooting a soap
opera and shot
Everyone in a scene full of self
conscious anxiety
And a man in fatigues has cried “I’M
NOBODY!”
And opened fire in a crowded
theater.
And a dictator representing all
our anxiety and will
To power and simultaneously our
failure
To grasp our decaying
relationship
With the natural community, a
drug lord,
A poor little bitty person who
needs to be a big shot
In the name of the people, has
just seized all
Government power in Columbia
And legalized and nationalized
all drugs
Please try to contain your
enthusiasm.
Attention Wal Mart Shoppers
Listen to the words of the
former President
Be afraid, be very afraid,
Go shopping
Buy some stuff, buy a gun in our
sports
Department or else the
terrorists will
Win. In the words of a very
former President,
“Let us begin again.” . let us
also remember
the political posturing can
never end.
With all due respect (and then
some)
Mr. President, Mr. Vice President,
Speaker of the House, since both
sides of this debate
Are wearing invisible Nascar
patches on their
Adult drag suits, let’s not get
too sanctimonious
About this, yes we have to do
the assault weapons ban but how
about a ban
on 3-D printed guns, how about a
ban
on nations using drones against
innocents or
t
their own citizens? Or have you
ever noticed
How fast someone with no
training and just a little
practice can reload? Or that there are hunting rifles
that can hit a nine inch target at
1000 yards? So which
is more terrifying, being killed
from a distance
with one bullet or up close with
fifteen? It took one bullet
to kill Lincoln, approximately
three
to kill JFK, one to kill Martin
Luther King...
Mr. President, members of Congress
and
K Mart and Wal Mart shoppers for
more symptomatic
Relief try some Asprin or Advil
but I submit the issue
We need to address
Is not
The number of rounds in a
magazine,
It is the number of
sensationalist, frivolous articles
In the nation’s magazines, it is
the disappearance of self
That comes from the
disappearance of
The community of nature, it is
the number
Of holes in the national soul.
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