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Guns and Roses



First person shooter,
on a hate tour of duty,
swinging a bullet sling blade
Buying a death row ticket,
worth fifteen minutes of fame
First person murder shooter;
womb-to-the-cradle-to-the-grave robber,
using your Automatic Revolver
to solve your anti-social mental problems
Sharpen that sling blade
on a coroner grindstone wheel
Gather the scythe-shredded corpses 
from the harvest killing field
Take the bullet-riddled body bags,
with warm blood dripping still ... 
and kevlar 
	      coffin 
bury them on Tommy Gun hill
Guns and Roses — 
Automatic Revolver 15 bullet salute
Let the gun pallbearers put ‘em in the ground,
and the saltpeter pew mourners 
	         put the rose flowers on the graves
AR-15 bullet salute ...

Guns and Roses —  
giving society another senseless violence eulogy
Guns and Roses — 
weapons of war killing innocent children of peace
Guns and Roses — 
ricochet death purchased with capitalist ease

No background check to vet tranquilize
the uncaged rage,
wearing a Second Amendment disguise
Empty thoughts and prayers,
full of politician hypocrisy
Thirty pieces of silver tongue lip-cluckers 
offering a gun lobby: no gun control policy 
A paid, no-money-back Judas apology
Snake oil teary talk rubbed on dry soul skin, 
allergen empathy-free

Guns and Roses — 
sacred shell religious philosophy
Guns and roses — 
kinetic death violence theology

Gun manufacture worshipers
love deifying the work of their hands 
They love to praise their golden trigger head
	silver handle arms
	brass chamber belly
	lead barrel legs
	paper green toes idol
Saying: Let your scimitar banana-shaped heart 
always remain sharp
And may your lead scythe sling blade soul 
never be dulled

Guns and roses — 
waxy ears don’t hearst hear it ...
bulletproof hearts so iceberg smoking cold
Guns and roses — 
plastic carnation petal spirits ...
metal detector salvation black market sold

Copyright © | Year Posted 2018




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Date: 2/27/2018 4:25:00 AM
Weapons of war killing innocent children of peace, i could not have said it better myself.. Powerful poetry from a pen of truth...
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