Shoot Someone - Ode to the NRA

Shoot Someone - Ode to the NRA

Shoot someone

anyone

that's what guns are for

Shoot the NRA

let them taste a bullet

that's what guns are for

Shoot your teacher

for all her lies

Shoot your neighbor

for his weedy grass

Shoot your kids

when they don't behave

Shoot your congressperson

for being incompetent

Shoot the illegals

for stealing your job

Shoot the minorities

who are stealing your country

Shoot the bankers

who are stealing your money

Shoot the crooks

working Wall Street

Shoot the warden

in the back

Shoot the priest for

his pretensions

Shoot the doctor

for her drugs

Shoot a gun

with hollow points

Shoot the homeless

on the street

Life is cheap

guns are cheap

shoot someone

anyone

That's what guns are for


Copyright © 2016 by Lowell A. Anderson

Where the hell did Monday go?

I got up from my nap

this afternoon

and wondered aloud

when golf came on TV

but then I thought

there’s no golf on TV

today is Monday

My dear wife said

no it’s not, this is Tuesday

I said -

Well, where the hell 

did Monday go?

Nobody knew.


Copyright © 2016 by Lowell A. Anderson

At the Barber Shop

I went to get a haircut
a trim, please, just above the ears
and don't forget to taper the back
I would have given more instructions
but I found it hard to speak
faced with fascist symbols
on the windows and the doors
and right there on his beak
which wobbled when
with nasal but polite invective
he trotted our the usual sneeze -
a political breeze - in an ineffectual plea
to dazzle me with all the specious
glories of the Right...

those denizens of capital
who whistle in the darkness
while dabbling in the night where they
conjure up methods to use their means to
strike the laws by which
we live and whereby we atone
with the hammer of their hairy, steely fists
so that what we thought
was made of Constitutional stone
turns into broken rubble in a stream
and idles meaninglessly down the mountainside
where the poor folks die alone.


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