BAN ASSAULT WEAPONS in 2017!

 

Firearms magazine offer manifold big bang for their buck, 
many ear rational per son or daughter loves advocate, the late Chuck 
Heston (now a shooting star occasionally 
visiting Earth from celestial vault) 
who fired undulation, imagination, and ballistic adulation 
heard das squaw coon like Donald Duck
head over webbed feet for Minnie, yet both scared of ratcheting 
mushrooming armaments to the teeth sinister race, 
   barrels along at alarming spike 

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triggering dramatic uptick of innocent lives caught in crosshairs, 
or stray slug makes a beeline whizzing 
at the speed of greased lightening
where luckless lie dead, when trigger happy urge itches 
to overtake sanity madman/woman glorifying while squeezing lever, 
whence bullet released, endangering unsuspecting lives
and engendering outrageous spike in wanton killings - 
a one or more person shell act, releasing 
whizzing elliptic mach one ballet 
boring into flesh with aplomb and pluck.

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Die-hard gun owners indiscriminately brandish 
ploaded pistol when jist a whippersnapper 
sparking unwarranted violence 
undermining innocent victim or two, or three, or...
concomitantly provoking furious backlash, 
as government half heartedly aims to dull liver restrictions, 
the right to pack heat

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(purportedly in accordance with second amendment), 
where NRA members dish
out violent objections, while proliferation mounts allowing easy access 
to revolutionary palm pilot size guns 
with concomitant firing power range 
glamorized by violent movies in tandem with lobbyists 
obstructing legislation requiring back round checks
against unlimited stock pile, thus nodding assonance 

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permitting a glut of phallic shaped mechanisms designed to kill, 
as acquiesce evinced via banshee cockamamie cashiered eggheads
who dilute down restrictions, whereby a colt following
hoofs from doe ting fauns fingering powerful weapons, 
despite murderous spree, where senseless bloody coup fuels fusillade
empowering citizens to possess off fish

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U.S., self-important protection becoming comfortably numb
as regular headlines detail some lone, maniacal    
human set on automatic pilot to kill methodically
   unloaded with a swishmultitudinous cartridges encasements
   testament attempt to even deadly score, or wish
take revenge vendetta amidst madding crowds -
   uttering oye vay iz mere - Yiddish.

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exclamation, which does nothing to stem dead locked high tide   
proliferation of high-powered assault bazookas 
manned by berserk cruel death eaters, 
arch nemesis picks off life with a blip
simultaneously bipedal hominid(s) grip handily rounded dirk 

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as backup in case clip
misses mark, where siege mentality induces 
nationwide sprinting into lockdown mode deterring by a drip
fiendish homicidal metamorphoses, where transmogrification 
of generic guy wielding weapon subjugating hostages 
   pits malignancy fill lip

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mailer daemon hell bent on besieging bait (unaware
Snapchatting linkedin flickr ring beings) burst deadly quip
barrage of bullets malicious intent to spray killing machines
   deliver click and rippaying plenti deathly instagram howls 
amidst pandemonium, thence funereal slip
epitaphs etched on tombstones proliferate 
taking souls to Hades quintessential River Styx trip.

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Brutal and nasty nefarious scheme directed at humble lettered folks 
(like those comprising my home town - 
   once evoked pastoral meme Lake Woebegone) 
minding their p's and q's, when in extremis
out of the blue nightmare interrupts idyllic dream

a sudden bitta bing bitta bang rings terrorist catcall 
   followed by red tide and river of bloodied body where caskets
rendered veneer of dark wood within lays corpse, 
pistol whipped, shredded and outkast, where mortician daubs creme.

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Soundcloud boom echoes, thus occurs
staccato sinister sonic strafes across
freshly fielded tombstone; pearl jam gray slate, 
   some formerly anonymous 
namesake, which underling, higgs bo son or daughter blitzkrieg cross 
invisible trajectories shatter (at shutterfly speed), 
   democratic rubric rendered dross
disposable lives of society with senseless slaughter, whereat somber silence
pines nostalgia for Mill on the Floss
when life seemed innocent against gunmetal gloss 
wails of agony at another human loss.

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This epidemic re: murderous love affair perfervid
with gruesome morbid 
fixation allowing, enabling and providing terrifying 
trappings, whence Pandora out the lid 
loosed by gun toting recorded by hid
dee us aide de camp per grim reaper 
milling crowd, each bewildered person stunned viz satanic grid
loosed bullets ensnare coterie upping ante bid
daring pernicious fare thee well odiously off loaded 
per incendiary fiery maelstrom to mega death count added.

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Suicide bombardier slakes thirst aims at billeted soiree
with deadly precision, and spray painting human innards 
congregated engaged groupon people), with egregious pay
ment for exaggerated slight mowing down, a slew - nay
soon to be lifeless victims unaware - delivering may 
hem to anonymous hunter a cannibal as well 
family and survivors, who lay
down their sorrows, which bring revulsion and gray 
obsolescence of faith in mankind to fray.

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Death be not proud, nor ought airtime be allocated to these 
heinous cavalier avengers foe tee eight-hour special (proffers 
twitchy finger itching to squeeze
especial easy access to sophisticated high caliber compact 
offspring family affair sport doth please
manifesting prize pride killing machine owners 
posed as stonewall Jackson frieze
rapaciously with so much ease
lethal gimcrackery cutlasses incite epidemic violence as disease.

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Sorrow soulful songs sung by the likes of death cab for cutie or goo
goo dolls in tandem with foo 
fighting beastie boys pay homilies whence homage grew 
to grateful dead nobody knewfetishistic martyrs wannabe

   set sights of sister and mew
sic cull doobie brothers of their simian species with no sorrow to rue.

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The ammunition greased casings pepper skull and cross lovely bones, 
lightening speedily deals mortal blow persons unaware,
the final minutes/seconds of lives leased
shorn of existence, and akin to sheared sheep, this cas
targeted ambushed ewe mon souls permanently fleeced
instantaneously cut short sealed mortality fate upon Avast group ceased
to exist as happy go lucky men, women
   and/or children from most fearsome beast. 

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Instantaneous re: within the blink and/or flickr survive
er eyed, and former gallivanting live 
capitalone progressive pinterest ting human con hive
ving to collide with hulu hooping unwittingly accompanying jive
vin track hewed by quick draw McGraw holster 
   sending dead riders to final resting place.

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Ribald exhortations and allegiance gifted who usher bereave
ment, where demise of existence experiences a field day,
whence microbes gorge viz Philabundance, while next of kin grieve
incalculable loss forsaken, whence emptiness doles bleakness 
upon grim outlook that doth leave tears, brought per spilt blood and sweat 
tallying cost, no miracle whipped lifeless ones can survivors retrieve.

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Mortal kombat rues unfathomable payless Priceline Bourse
induces adrenaline to course thru melee,
   where iron maidens sprint non selfie ish 
lee to safer outlook, where moments of pain force
besiege collective asylum seekers indulge gorse 
faux Joyus fancyfeast er vanityfair, whence sorrow loosed like a wild horse
diehard fanatic (attired inconspicuously like 
dishabille schlepper of an outlier) source 
index finger clutch released high-powered voluminous ammunition 
murderous mass homicidal rates get worse. 

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Netzero escape those unfairly killed ceaselessly year after year
undeclared warfare, 
whereby killer coolly unleashes fusillade veer
ring out the barrel to tear 
whole food community fabric,
   blithely empty lethal munitions truckload to spare.

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

This poem is about: 
My community
My country
Our world

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