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Writer's pictureShawn Inlow

A Symptom of a Savage Nation




Am I supposed to be shocked

When violence begets violence?

When the one who weaves hatred

Like a fine tapestry

Bleeds red into the fabric

And wears it at the coronation

It is okay when his clergy

Attack and kill

Police officers

Who, now, are the heroes?

There are good people

On both sides

When a white supremacist

Plows his Chevelle

Through a crowd of civil rights

Protesters.

Do Black Lives Matter?

Really?

Good people in Charlottesville

With tiki torches

Singing songs of hate.

Am I supposed to be shocked

At the blood carnival

That is America

Come on down to Parkland!

Two down and two critical

Oh, darlin' it's just another rally

Am I supposed to be shocked

When violence visits the violent?

When the Purge

Comes home to roost

When Fox News creates a Monster

And now the Monster walks

A vulgar creature of Reality TV

Thoughts and prayers, people.

Thoughts and prayers.

What is the difference

Between Trump and Van Gogh?

It was the other ear.

Shocking. Really?

Am I supposed to be shocked

In Uvalde, Columbine, The Tree of Life?

Too soon

Too soon

Am I supposed to be shocked

When Israel

Bombs a humanitarian zone

Leaving a sea of dead?

I can laugh it off

A Russian bunker buster

In a children's hospital

Am I supposed to be shocked

That a son of Pennsylvania

Missed the shot?

Hail Trump!

He Is Immune

Am I supposed to be shocked

That Putin's guy

Got the wrong address?

What's next

You American Psycho

What's next

You Fight Club Dandy

Give as you get

Live and let live

And kill or be killed

In the Land of the Free

This is the whimper

Of whipped dogs

Moaning witnesses

Getting off

Behind curtains

Enjoying the show

While the Murder goes down

And the gurgling death cries

Flutter to the heavens

Like insane bats

Shocking. No?

This is the symptom

Of a savage nation

When the cheers

Turn to screams

And the screams

Turn to chants

Of U.S.A!

U.S.A!

U.S.A!

So lay down.

The threat is real.

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