the Heaneys at a christening on realizing everyone else had brought a present
write something
she said
he went in
went up
and wrote something
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All the Children
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It doesn’t take much
To go into a classroom
Filled with children
And a teacher
Carrying guns
And then proceed to shoot
There are no opponents
And no challenges
There
Where is the victory, then?
The mannish triumph?
Only destruction
Taking lives
Of those who don’t fight back
Cowardly command
Of a situation
Why not keep it to
A video game
Electrons make the hell of it
Pouring onto Earth?
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This does not address
The visceral:
The violence of bullets
Piercing children’s flesh
And what the bullets do,
Once inside
Was this accomplishment?
Or would the defense
Have been insanity,
Should the shooter
Plan to live beyond the killing?
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We’ll never know
There might have been no expectation
To live, after
It doesn’t matter
Unless to know
Somehow prevents another
Time
Of people killing children
Because they can
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Here are the latest developments in the Uvalde elementary school mass shooting
As the town of Uvalde in South Texas mourns the killing of 19 students and two teachers at an elementary school, a vigil was held for the victims at a community arena Wednesday night.
“Amazing Grace” was played as those in attendance wept and hugged.
The mass shooting on Tuesday has again spurred statewide and national conversations over gun control, following on two others over a two-week period —at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, and a church in Laguna Woods, California.
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Down Roads We Go
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New Forest National Park, United Kingdom
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