Evelyn Augusto Poet Free verse

Gunning At Walmart

“Give up trying to do anything.   
               nothing works works.”   
 From a note written by Scott Allen Ostrem


If only you came to buy
another cell phone, a pen and 
note card, some crayons &
paper.  Anything.  Anything
that would give you a voice.

If only you bought the
fixings for a satisfying supper, 
or a gift for a lost lover.
Anything. Anything to help 
you express your distress.

Anything to free your 
words from the prison of
your maddness, anything 
to thaw your frozen tongue,
anything to return your
manhood,  other than that gun!

Anything.  Anything.   If only . . .

By:  Evelyn Augusto 
For GUNS DON'T SAVE PEOPLE POETS DO 2017

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