Saturday, 28 May 2022

New Fruit on American Trees

 


146 sculls hang among the leaves
as if an image is needed
for us to see how love for guns
is greater than our love for children

if this were a democracy
if the sanctity of life came first
we would choose life over guns
and profit

but those who enabled this killing 
will watch more to come tomorrow
trying to do their job
without thinking or feeling

—it costs too much to be human
in this manufactured silence
as if everything is okay

easier to be 
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