Attempt
At church it was announced
Someone tried to kill
Donald Trump
It happened in Butler
And I don’t know the circumstances
Though I know Butler
A small town
Up Route 8 from where I used to live
Go through town
Turn left
Go on to school
From there
A smallish town
It was
And I don’t know how it is
Today
My being some hundreds of miles
Away
(not having gone back
in years)
Once my team and I
Played on the radio
There
Sang and taught some
Gospel
Parochial
Some would say
American
An easy place to hold a rally
Until yesterday
I could wish him to drop out
(I have wished)
But
Never
Never
Never
In this way
(and he won’t)
And someone died
Someone else died in the attempt
Then (also) the shooter
Others hurt
While so many of us feel wounded
This morning
In church
And in the nation
After the announcement
The Doxology was
Sung
A song of faith
As are all songs of service
Sung
In parts
In harmony
In earnest
C L Couch
Photo by Josh Eckstein on Unsplash
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A Lost World
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I took my .22,
Shot at paper targets
I wasn’t very good
There were
I’m sure
Excuses
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I could not shoot Bambi
There are those who could
And use the food
At home or to give
To other,
Hungry people
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A bullet from a distance
What might Cain
Have devised?
With such Indiscretion
And the safety off,
He might have gone
After Seth
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Then where would we be
For progeny
With only wives surviving, were
They out of range?
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They might retrieve
The guns
Then learn to shoot for life,
Maybe instructed by
An angel
Out of Eden
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An imagined state
Doomed,
We’d think
Excepting life to find a way
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C L Couch
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Suspect nabbed in stray bullet slaying of 1-year-old Brooklyn boy sitting in stroller last summer
The accused shooter in last summer’s horrific stray bullet shooting of a 1-year-old boy outside a Brooklyn playground was charged Thursday in the devastating death that shocked a pandemic-stricken city and rattled Mayor de Blasio.
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Photo by Omkar Jadhav on Unsplash
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The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle, then by Michael Crichton
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Lent 13
We kill them
in New Zealand.
We kill them
in Pittsburgh.
We kill them when we leave
disasters go unplanned.
What is wrong with us
that we must in living
(dying)
ways deny the worth
of each of us
in every moment?
There is an answer:
maybe it starts small
within a verdant nucleus
and then another.
And then we make something like
synapse so that
the network of humanity
cannot function in any other way
but connected.
C L Couch
New Zealand Mosque Massacre Live-Streamed
“Let’s get this party started.” Those were the chilling opening lines of a now-viral Facebook live video streamed by the gunman who casually and methodically killed at least 41 people at a mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand Friday. Eight more people died in an attack at another mosque, but it’s unclear if the same gunman was responsible.
Split Apple Rock in Abel Tasman National Park, New Zealand
Split_Apple_Rock_Abel_Tasman_National_Park_New_Zealand.jpg: Alexander Klinkderivative work: —kallerna™ – Split_Apple_Rock_Abel_Tasman_National_Park_New_Zealand.jpg, CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=6428938
Atatürk
The death-toll rose
From ten to forty-one
Was there a plan
In the attack that
Foreign blood would
Mix with that of
Home
Insane strategy
To kill those first who
Are not involved
The cheat of
Terrorists whose
Cowardice will not
Face military forces
This aim makes a
Target out of me, and
Certainly I can get
Scared;
I must hope that
Death by misdirected
Amateurs will not
Find me today
And grieve with those
Slain in anonymity,
Because the killers
Don’t care
Who we are
Who Loves Life?
(based on the shootings at Planned
Parenthood in Colorado Springs)
Pro-Life should not kill
People who exercise choice
Do not hate life
Planned Parenthood should make
Sure all options are given; there are
Good people who are Pro-Life
But the debate is over once
Guns are used, and
It has failed
Can we talk again? Let’s
Hope so; otherwise, what’s left
Is to kill again
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