Warning Behavior

well now, let’s see, if you live in “the land of the free,” you get to see people get blown away at a higher frequency these days, because of “individuals” who have snapped, right? couldn’t be the wonderful capitalist gangbang, that squeezes its hand round the neck of everyone, forcing us to scramble for money, constantly stressing & “hoping for a better day”--- naaaaaa… couldn’t be the inability to get a good job or a job at all, which would propel people at least above water, so that slaughter didn’t seem so enticing, when faced with a life of being thrown into one of society’s garbage cans--- naaaaaa… you get prison to look forward to, if you are poor, you get a mental institution to look forward to, if you show the slightest sign of complaint about the status quo, or you get the street to live on, if you have tried to self-medicate, if you have tried to do everything in your power to keep your own finger off the trigger, because of the immense lack of compassion which comes with being the so-called “leader of the free world.” (ya keepin’ your eyes peeled for that “warning behavior”?) so with 20 kids dead today, 20 who will never get to have a say in what could prevent the killing of more people, 20 kids who will never be able to give us their own perspective on what is happening in this country--- 20 kids, whom this writer would have wanted to listen to, rather than any politician, “leader,” authority figure or adult who thinks that if things go on the way that they have been, that it is not going to get worse--- so are you going to stop going to movie theaters, america? gonna stop standing on street corners waiting to cross? gonna stop going to shopping malls? gonna pull all your kids from the schools? (ya keepin’ your eyes peeled for that “warning behavior”?) is that how you are going to deal with this? sew up your eyes so you can no longer cry & hope that the storm washes over, so you don’t have to deal with it? hmmmm…. (ya keepin’ your eyes peeled for that “warning behavior”?) and for those living in other countries, who dream of coming to this place, who dream of wallowing in the gut of the empire with the rest of us, churning away into complete self-destruction, is this what you really want? do you really want to be like america? (ya keepin’ your eyes peeled for that “warning behavior”?) instead, go ahead & blame it on the “crazy behavior” of “one individual” who committed a “heinous crime,” sweep it under the rug again & hope that you can forget about the lives of 20 kids who will not get to pretend like you that nothing happened today, so that they can feel all warm & cozy for their coming “holiday,” right? (keeping your eyes peeled).