The Day After Valentine’s Day 2018

CSU Channel Islands' Literary Journal

By Chelsea Parker

Our elected officials are good-hearted Evangelicals.

They silently speak their thoughts and prayers

While children continue to perish,

And bystanders wait to see which children return home to their parents.

The right side screams out,

People can still commit carnage with knives

And besides,

Gun control laws will target a white male demographic.

The 2nd amendment is unmovable   

Like 8 am 405 freeway traffic.

 

We all wait, watching the news

Buzzing from all forms of media

Hitting hard with the weight of a freight train.

We strain our ears hoping for a better excuse,

But then Facebook friends cry out,

Mental health issues!

By the end of the week celebrity gossip continues.

 

So don’t present your position,

Instead, send your prayers up high or

You’ll offend your family members on the right side

Of the thick polarized political line.

They will tell you, people kill people

Guns aren’t the problem.

Don’t you know that heartbreak doesn’t constitute political change?

Go to a gun range!

It’s fun!

You’ll see!

 

13, 28, 49, 58, 17, but please

By all means elected officials,

Send out your thoughts and prayers,

And keep your bleeding red state

White male approval rate consistent

With the NRA.

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