Another holiday. Another mass shooting. Are those fireworks or gunshots? I’m not sure I can tell the difference anymore. The freedom to keep and bear arms is infringing on other’s pursuits of life, not to mention liberty and of happiness. There is no independence here, unless it be the freedom from living. I’m so tired. In memorial to those who died north of Chicago at an Independence Day parade:
Today’s the day, kids!
Celebrate your freedom!
The tyranny of peace
Cannot hurt you now
That you’ve drowned
In your own blood,
Lying on the parade pavement
While overhead, bullets fly
Screaming like eagles,
Screeching about freedoms.
Today’s the day, kids!
Celebrate your freedom!
The tyranny of sensibility
Cannot hurt you now
That you’ve breathed
In all the gun-smoke,
Lying on the parade pavement,
While overhead, people run
To hide and cry and fear,
Forgetting about freedoms.
Today’s the day, kids!
Celebrate your freedom!
The tyranny of moderation
Cannot hurt you now
That you’ve waved
Your own little flag
Lying now on the parade pavement.
Overhead, bullet spangled banners
Snap in the breeze
Symbolizing our freedoms.
Today’s the day, kids!
Celebrate your freedom!
The tyranny of safety
Cannot hurt you now
That you’ve died
Lying on the parade pavement.
Overhead, politicians send
Thoughts and prayers
Meanwhile, your death
Fertilizes our freedoms.
Today’s the day, kids!
Celebrate your freedoms!
The tyranny of – I can’t.
I memorialized Memorial Day
With the memory of a mass shooting
And Independence Day?
Fireworks exploded like bullets exploding
From gunmetal barrels to murder
People standing on scorching parade pavement.
Maybe what’s out of control are our freedoms.
Give up your freedoms,
So that another may live,
Surrender your guns,
So that death may come aging,
Leaving the parade pavement
To be trod again.
It couldn’t hurt you now to lay aside
The tyranny of the 2nd Amendment.
Celebrate your freedom!
Today’s the day, kids!
a simple man 