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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