RANDOM JACK POETRY HOUR: POEMICS
War Zone
A nation that watches dozens
Of its people killed by gunfire
Doesn’t need to go to war
We live in a war zone
We are in perpetual war
We alone in this world
Allow such brutal carnage
We alone do nothing to stop it
Are we more impassioned than
The people of other nations?
Witness the Paris uprisings
Witness the protests of London
Witness the riots of Berlin
Are we more violent than other nations?
Witness the Spanish Inquisition
The War of the Roses
The rise of the Third Reich
The revolutions of Latin America
No and no again
We are no different than others
But we have one thing
Other nations do not have
The second amendment
Unfettered access to guns
And weapons of war
Period
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