"They were
itching for a fight" the papers say now like they were
monkeys near food time. From prison shiv to the pink pistol of a lady,
there's a lot of good reasons to be
belligerent once you got a club in your hand.
The startling rat a tat metal of the Koreshians used to pick off
government employees were manufactured here in proud America and
sold in sanctioned swap meets.
Rain falls from the sky; guns are shipped in cartons.
Just like the rest of us— ghetto-dwellers,
doomsday prophets, Texans, duck-hunters, candidates,
wife-beaters, mailmen, off-duty cops, kids:
we all hug the weapons and keep them close.
© 1995 Daniel X. O'Neil
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