Extended magazine of inaction.
Give ‘em.
Give ’em a gun; give ’em a Bible. /
Watch as they turn and go tribal. /
“An Act of God,” is their refrain /
as the children cry out in pain.
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#give #bible #pain #tribal #refrain #cartoonnotmine #poem #poetry #guns #davidebooker #040815 #2015
Filed under 2015, poem, poet, poetry, poetry by author, Poetry by David E. Booker, satire, Uncategorized
The Glade
Yes, the irony /
Is clear to me /
How you define being brave. /
If it can be done /
With your gun, /
Then my life can’t be saved. /
But wear a mask /
A simple task /
And you holy rant and rave. /
Over your dead body, /
And this said hotly, /
You to the world vouchsafe. /
Your creed is clear. /
It is death you hold dear, /
A charging bull in the glade. /
For another’s life /
No sacrifice /
Can ever or today be made. /
Compassion has died, /
Empathy hied, /
But with your gun you’re brave. /
You’re cold, dead hands /
Stretch across this land, /
But there is nothing to save. /
That shot in your arm /
You feared would cause you harm, /
Has no hope for you today. /
You’re the Bull Without the Mask /
And your soul’s task /
Is to drive life forever from the glade.
080121
Filed under 2021, guns, poem, Poetry by David E. Booker, rhyming poetry
Read, Donnie, Read
Savor every word. /
Turn the pages respectfully. /
Arm the mind and heart.
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#davidebooker #mind #heart #truth #pain #2019 #thursday #february #haiku #poem #poetry #poet #writing #writer #reading #pages #words #respect #read #reading
Filed under 2019, haiku, photo, Poetry by David E. Booker
Thoughts and prayers
Thoughts and prayers
Are like underwear —
They can keep some crap from spilling.
But when they fill
There is no thrill
When no one does any repairing.
Filed under 2019, Photo Finish Friday, poetry by author
Savor every word. /
Turn the pages respectfully. /
Arm the mind and heart.
Filed under 2019, Haiku to You Thursday, poetry by author
Guns clatter the ground. /
Clouds bulging with thoughts and prayers. /
Shrill tears from heaven.
Filed under 2018, Haiku to You Thursday, poetry by author, Uncategorized
An Act of God
It was an Act of God, we said
that killed the children and made them dead.
There was no other answer so
for why the children had to go.
The triggers were pulled, the bullets fast
and it was God when made them past.
Oh why, oh why would God do so?
But “An Act of God” is all we know.
We now put guns in our parks
in case of criminals there in the dark
acting out God’s will, you know
culling the herd of those too slow
to pull a gun and aim it fast
to squeeze the trigger and make it blast
the muzzle to thunder with God’s own voice.
After all, you know, we have no choice.
“It’s An Act of God,” we will say
when the police take us away
and we’ll utter that magical chant
and our actions we won’t recant
when the body’s pulled into the light
of the child who’d hidden in fright
thinking we were the ones to fear
and how that now seems so queer
that we would be the ones to fear.
Yes, we would be the ones to fear.
Written by David E. Booker
Inspired by this political insanity: http://nashvillepublicradio.org/post/top-republicans-say-theyll-oppose-proposal-let-guns-tennessee-capitol
which is part of this: http://aattp.org/tennessee-state-rep-proclaims-child-shootings-an-act-of-god-like-bicycle-accidents/
Background information: http://www.knoxnews.com/news/state/haslam-expresses-major-concerns-about-gunsinparks-bill_96846738
and http://www.knoxnews.com/news/state/tennessee-mulls-removing-control-over-guns-in-parks
Filed under 2015, poetry by author
[Editor’s note: I nominate these two guys, posthumously, for Darwin Awards. Or maybe they could share one.]
Source: http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2012/apr/23/men-fatally-shoot-each-other-over-repair-issue/
Associated Press
Monday, April 23, 2012
MARTIN, Tenn. (AP) — Two West Tennessee man have died in an argument over a garden tiller at a repair shop.
WCMT radio in Martin reported the death over the weekend of 68-year-old Oren Willis.
Weakley County Sheriff’s deputies said Roy McAlpin and Willis, who was one his customers, shot each other Friday.
McAlpin was pronounced dead at his shop near Palmersville. Willis was taken to Vanderbilt University Hospital in Nashville, where he died on Saturday.
Investigators said the men argued after Willis didn’t return to pick up his repaired tiller and McAlpin sold it to someone else.
Filed under absurdity, tiller, true story
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