No Barbie dolls…or shopping malls
No cotton candy or ice cream
A bullet hole…a six foot hole
No more childhood dreams
No scraped knees…No, “Dad, oh please!”
Just a box…with earthen locks
No prom dates…No, “Don’t be late”
No future…teen-age schemes
Our politics…Our rhetoric
Have gotten…out of hand
When Red and Blue…Say, “Hey, Fuck You”
In “finger flipping” land
America the beautiful, America the brave?
America increasingly…the land of the depraved
No Pillow fights…or Pizza nights
No being smitten…with a Kitten
Just the taste…of lethal waste
As if foul soul…was bitten
No homework now…or “dress up” time
No “puppy love”…or crush
Just loved ones years of streaming tears
And callous hearts so out of touch
No Birthday wishes…No Doing dishes
No child of her own…or “Darling Dear
Please hold me near”…A graveyard is now home
“Collateral Damage”…in political wars
They die everyday…on distant shores
Propelled by corporate rapacious whores…
How can so many… remain obtusely blind?
Caught in the Crosshairs…At the age of 9
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