Aurora
so, another shooting in
the belly of the empire…
i wonder if Charlton Heston’s
withery old cock just
sprung to life?
i wonder if Ted Nugent &
Charlton Heston are sitting in
front of the television together
stroking each other’s hard hard
members with one hand,
whilst gripping their guns in the
others?
i wonder if James Holmes grew up
in the same culture that
dwells in the belly of the beast,
the same culture that develops in the
belly of the empire like cancer spreading,
the same culture that worships
guns like it does money, like it does
“jesus,” like it does the violence that
it propels across the heads of all
who live outside its borders?
hmmm.
and the sound bite keeps pumping
like house bass in our ears
that it all happened at the premiere of the
new Batman movie---
as if it never could have happened on
opening night of “Madagascar 3,” or
“Ted,” or “Brave,” or “Ice Age:
Continental Drift”---as if Christian Bale &
Tom Hardy somehow instigated
a man to kill people in a public theater…
so was Batman playing on Sept. 5th, 1949, in
Camden, NJ? was Batman playing on Aug.
6th, 1966, at the University of Texas in
Austin? was Batman playing on Sept. 25th,
1982, in Wilkes-Barne, Pennsylvania? was
Batman playing July 18th, 1984? how about
the 16th of October in 1991? how about 4/20/99?
and 4/16/07? 3/10/09?
04/
3/
09?
11/
5/
09?
yes, america, blame Aurora on
Christopher Nolan, just like you did
Marilyn Manson for
Eric & Dylan,
then walk away with your
NRA stickers &
your fist in the air
every time a drone kills another bunch of
people in Pakistan “accidentally.”
THEY ARE ALL JUST
“ISOLATED
INCIDENTS,”
RIGHT?
Copyright © Andrew Delapruch | Year Posted 2012
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