Saturday, February 11, 2017

Stop Shooting My Friends

Stop Shooting My Friends
© Surazeus
2015 09 01

The nightly news is an endless addendum
to murder in the Metamorphoses.
I sing fill-in-the-blank ballads of death.
When are you going to stop shooting my friends?

What bright flower, who glowed in fields of life,
lies crushed by hate and leaves our world now dark?
Yet scent of your love still sweetens our hearts.
When are you going to stop shooting my friends?

Onathah, sacred land where I was born
I dance with you today in golden corn.
When are you going to stop shooting my friends?

My right to secure life with my family
overrules your right to carry a gun.
Tend your garden instead of killing people.
When are you going to stop shooting my friends?

When they finish building the wall of fear
towering between Texas and Mexico,
we will all come together on both sides
to smoke weed, eat burgers, and play volleyball.
When are you going to stop shooting my friends?

Socialism without Capitalism is Communism.
Capitalism without Socialism is Fascism.
Capitalism regulated by Socialism is Americanism.
When are you going to stop shooting my friends?

There is nothing more relaxing than sitting
in warm glowing sun beams after lunch
and listening to the pock pock of weapons fire.
When are you going to stop shooting my friends?

The old still-green tree spreading branches wide
among the white clouds of a clear blue sky
preserves the spirit of every small town.
When are you going to stop shooting my friends?

Though today Kiev is a battlefield
between the peoples of Europe and Russia,
someday I hope she will unite as one
our nations in Caucasian brotherhood
for we were first born in her river vales.
Anglonesia springs from heart of Kiev.
When are you going to stop shooting my friends?

Laughing alligators of hunger rise
from swamp of television news to play
game of thrones across the chessboard of money.
When are you going to stop shooting my friends?

"Why do you call me a Christian terrorist?
I killed all those evil abortion doctors
because Jesus said that killing is wrong."
When are you going to stop shooting my friends?


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