David Huddle: The NRA as the Official Mascot of the USA

“It’s been happening everywhere. I’ve always felt it would eventually happen here.”

–Santa Fe High School student Paige Curry

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Good parents, you send your children to school

where as you now know there’s a fair chance 

a boy or a young man–maybe a classmate–

will kill them using freely available

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weapons. Stupid is the word for a nation 

that enables this atrocity five times 

a month. What we know that evidently 

you don’t is that your elected officials 

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make money from these shootings because we

pay them to let gun commerce flourish.

Ignorance makes America great–so cut 

school budgets, attack teachers, disrespect 

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science and journalism. And send your children

to school–where it’s so easy to gun them down.

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Copyright 2019 David Huddle

David Huddle’s ninth poetry collection, My Surly Heart, is available from LSU Press.