Taking Shots - December 14th
Cock it.
America is free and proud and did I mention free?
And we were promised bullets to protect our children.
Nutmeg blood only boils
Don’t spill in gallons – only a splash and it never hits
pavement
Hard. We were born to mousy upstanding snoots
Brought up never to lead in hate only to follow
The letter of the law-
Cross off tick, tick, tick, tock
We always hire that flowery man to design our rooms
Just don’t get too close with my son. That’s why I pistol whip
him
over to the targets.
Where we can shoot
the shit of privatization and freeloaders or
Bless His unchangeable slang-
Clang clang cling clang bang
I only want that smell of spiced oak
welded and waxed; don’t go digging through
my purse- on all history.
You can’t use my past shells to
Dead bolt my personal liberty
Ratta-taw-ratta-taw-ratta-taw-ratta-taw
Protests drive up in Mercedes bends afraid to get out and
muck up
their shiny shoes so
they throw around acronyms
MDA,CSGV, CDF
Like there’s some kind of problem
With kids getting dropped one by one
Off to practice training pistols. Mothers always worry
But we know this isn’t a Colorado theatre,
Columbine or little Mary Ann Vecchio cryin’ at Kent State
It’s just cold and crisp and red in the trees till
I’m sinking my car on i-84 near my saucer shelf town.
just before exit 10.
the traffic is silenced to a stop. I hear This blaze of
sound. and a
pop pop pop
Near the wheels I put the clutch to idle. I hear the sirens
go off.
I wonder what drunk
kid’s dumb decision made
me late to the range.
A siren wails in anguish.
so I roll up my window.
Bam. Bam. Bam. damn
America is free and proud and did I mention free?
And we were promised our bullets to protect our children.
Traffic is gumming up this December 14th
afternoon
cause I can’t get off on exit 10 and I need to pick up my
son from school.
We’re supposed to go shooting tonight.
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