Tuesday, May 24, 2022

Rachel Weeping for her Children - poem

 

Lawrence Hall

Mhall46184@aol.com 

https://hellopoetry.com/lawrence-hall/

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Rachel Weeping for her Children

 

This is spring

 

There should be inattention in class:

Summer plans for camping and for play

When each sunny day is a barefoot day

Splashing in the stock pond, annoying the cows

 

Instead of

 

Chain-link fencing, sagging gates, gunfire

Black rifles, screams, ambulances in lines

Yellow plastic tape, detailed narratives

Telephoto camera lenses, MePhones

 

And tiny little bodies plastic-wrapped

Carried one by one to refrigerated vaults

 

 

(Hey, stud, preach to them about your Second Amendment)

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