the right to bear arms
political violence seeps into
our children’s dreams
concealed as spiders
& snakes
—when they awaken
talk of wounding & maiming
enter their mainstream conscious
even killing
if that’s what it has to
come down to
september two thousand twenty-four
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jdubqca 
so very sad
A hard truth to like, my friend
Thank you. It is so pathetic.