More Guns

More Guns

More guns

More high school kids

murdered

scarred forever

inside their disbelieving heads

Why can’t adults

Supposedly responsible for their safety

And their innocence

Stop this senseless

Celebration-upon-celebration of death

Recurring

Horrific

That a lobby

Built on hate and fear

Can eliminate background checks

Which the NRA once favored

In olden polls

When the bullet was sacred

For defense

Versus a malignant government

Stripping us of our freedom

As it had in the colonial past

But now it seems

That we have a world gone mad

In which killers fester

Dragging their guns to school

As if life’s just another

Violent video game

Starring them

Prominent for a minute

Upon the popular viral

Tragic cyberstage

© 2018 Claude Mayers

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