Member Poem

Just Another Day in the Land of the Free 

Lately every day
When I turn on the U.S. news
I hear and see

Another act of gun violence
Another policeman shooting
A black person over a minor offense
For the crime of driving while black

Another shooting in a school
Another shooting in a church
Another shooting in a store
50,000 gun deaths per year
As if an entire town ceased to exist

Yet nothing is done
The republicans offer
Useless thoughts and prayers

And refuse to do a damn thing
Nothing can be done they say

Gun violence
Is the cost
Of our freedom

Guns don’t kill people
The solution to gun violence
Are more guns for all

The Gun ghosts
don’t care for thoughts and prayers
They remain dead