pistols

#poemsfortheresistance

i can’t keep
writing poems
about guns
and i can’t keep 
writing songs 
about blood
the thesaurus only has
eight synonyms 
for evil 

and eight for 
apathy 
and nineteen for
selfish 
but eighty six 
for this year’s mass 
shootings 

i can’t keep talking
about bullets 
repetition is an 
empty act
for an empty people 
hungry for violence 
and thirsting for 
power 

there is no limit 
to cruelty
when equated with
freedom 
and no limit
to murder 
when equated with 
god

christians own
more pistols 
than jesus 
but he can’t be perfect 
in every way 

and when 
constitutional rights
become heavenly 
righteousness 
there’s no longer 
a need for satan
because america
runs hell 
just as well 
as him