The Thoughtless, Heartless, Do-Nothing Congress

The Thoughtless, Heartless, Do-Nothing Congress Another day of carnage In the USA Little children Eight, nine, ten and eleven years old, Their life cut short, By a mad person With an automatic rifle What will we all do? Every week More innocent people are Victims of violent shootings, Where is the Congress? The Thoughtless, Heartless, Do-Nothing Congress Children died at Sandyhook in Newtown, Connecticut, Innocent babies, Only five or six years old, Never to celebrate another birthday, To hug their Mom and Dad, To watch TV, Go to a ball game, Go see a movie, All over forever, Now the same for These children in Uvalde, Texas, Never to play ball again, Or learn to dance, Or play a musical instrument, Or wait for Santa Claus, All over forever, Where is the Congress? The Thoughtless, Heartless, Do-Nothing Congress, People in Buffalo going about Their lives, Doing their grocery shopping, Even planning for a birthday party, But a madmen came And now they’re gone forever, Innocent people in a movie theater In Denver, Colorado, Murdered by an insane gunman, High-school students in Florida, A Congregation at a Taiwanese church In California, Enjoying their luncheon, A deranged gunman Came to their church With a gun, Where is the Congress? The Thoughtless, Heartless, Do-Nothing Congress, We don’t like to think mean thoughts, But if it were someone dear to them, A law would have been passed already, But We the People The Average Joe and Lucy, The teacher, the secretary, the store worker, The hairdresser, the carpenter, the librarian, The aviation engineer, the truck driver, The fireman, the policeman, The dentist, the doctor, The veterinarian, The writer, The singer, The actor, The artist, And the plumber, The electrician, The salesman, The garbageman too, No matter if you Are white, black, Hispanic, Asian, or Native American Indian, We the People Don’t seem to count anymore Where is the Congress? The Thoughtless, Heartless, Do-Nothing Congress We the People We the People We the People We the People We the People Celine Rose Mariotti