His Hair Was Dyed Red

the world watches Holmes sit “dazed” in the courtroom, with each mainstream media monolith churning out the sound bites referencing his eyes & his red hair--- the picture that goes viral is of course the one that can be likened most to something out of Heath-Ledger-as-The- Joker-101, visually answering questions for the people at home, because we all know that individuals who dye their hair red are megalomaniacs who will more than likely, eventually, inevitably, order bullet proof clothing, a gas mask & 6, 000 rounds of ammo, with the “calculated & deliberate” intent to walk into a movie theater & blast everyone into oblivion. and when every talking head from Oates to Obama, comments on the massacre, we watch them stumble over the responsibility that this culture has to own up to when something like this happens--- rather, they weigh it all on the shoulders of one red haired young person, whilst hugging the loved ones, the family of those whose members were killed. subtly inactive in regards to the actual problem at hand, mumbling things about finding better ways to “take every step possible to ensure the safety of all of our people,” all the words that flow from mr. hope & change’s mouth add up to no actual veering from the status quo in the future & the mum mum hush hush gun industry knows this, giving the big man a nod. instead, we look with inspiring eyes at Obama, when he tries to gain a collective sense of sympathy from the crowd, when remarking that “we may never understand what leads anybody to terrorize their fellow human beings like this”… and as we shake our heads & hug ourselves, just hoping that such violence never affects us directly, or harms our own families/friends in such a manner, we all turn a blind eye to the people that our military has massacred throughout the more than 200 years that our country has existed & we turn a blind eye to the violence enacted upon the citizen’s here at home, who have suffered & continue to suffer at the hands of the police & state officials, whilst the paranoid & terrified hicks out in the middle of bumble**** no man’s land, clench their rifles & their pistols, never having been threatened by anyone, anywhere, for any reason at all, thinking that the whole world is out to get them, swearing that they will never move a muscle in the direction of progress.