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St. Paul, Minnesota March 7, 2018

St. Paul, Minnesota March 7, 2018. Around 4000 high school students walked out of school and marched to the Minnesota capitol to demand that legislators make changes to gun control laws. By Fibonacci Blue from Minnesota, USA - March For Our Lives student protest for gun control, CC BY 2.0, Link.

Angry entitled white men
with fancy guns that can fire
faster than thought kill

and kill and plan to kill more
as they flee their massacres.
Children make good prey.

They can’t fire back or run
fast enough. Assault weapons
don’t leave TV’s tidy corpses.

They rip bodies apart, tear
organs to chopped meat,
a bloody mess to identify.

What pleasure does killing give?
Does ending the lives of others
make yours suddenly worthwhile?

Marge Piercy is the author of twenty books of poetry, most recently On the Way Out, Turn Off the Light, plus seventeen novels, a memoir, a short story collection, and five nonfiction books.
2024, Volume 76, Number 07 (December 2024)
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