Wednesday, January 22, 2025

No Small Matters

Just got distracted by another school shooting

This one where I live, the second in two years


Governor, senators, and representatives say

“We pray for the families and students”


I do not hear them ever get serious about fostering

Bigger and better conversations about gun control


Perhaps enacting some new laws one day

To prevent the ease by which some kids kill


Nothing to be done

No changes to be made

How am I complicit?


How to make sense of such inaction?
Oh, the gun lobby and NRA and all those people

Who want to keep guns for protection

BUT allowing their young children to find them

And destroy themselves and others

Or better yet, the parents who buy guns

For adolescent sons whose brains aren’t

Fully formed and who often make deadly decisions


No small matters

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