D.W. Rodgers Poet Sonnet

Sister She Live In a Small Texas Town

Sister she live in a small Texas town
good thing that she don't go to church no more, 
cause these days they just shoot them down 
with automatic rifles six two four.
 
It's not the guns, cry the folk in power 
yet guns are always close at hand
to shoot when comes that final hour
but could this change if guns were banned?

Blame Muslims, blacks or foreign plots
but never, ever look inside
connect the lines between the dots
to find the cancer we can't hide.

To those who cite the Fourth Amendment
was this your Founders' true intendment?

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Line Gauthier May 18, 2020 at 11:05 PM A powerful piece taking the reader deep into society's ugliness.

Maria Williams November 7, 2017 at 6:21 AM Good to see you back and writing Dave. I've never been a lover of guns so I guess I vote ban the guns. We did it in Australia many years ago...Maria D.W. Rodgers November 7, 2017 at 9:04 AM hi Maria and thanks for visiting this and more of my poems. This one basically flowed from the first line and the events that I can hardly imagine which are so often on the news.