"At the End of the Day," a haiku set about #ColoradoSprings Attack "Club Q mass shooting ..." the same headwind on the way back home from a party neighbor's home remodelling: the No Trespassing sign with a rifle-scope motif bit.ly/3F2mHOH #haiku #poetry #poem #ClubQ
It's inhumanity. The truth is, "one nation under guns." -- Inaugural #poet #AmandaGorman #quote #gunviolence The essential precondition for mass violence is not guns or hate but a "culture of terror." -- Masha Gessen, #TheNewYorker, bit.ly/3GPlhss #ColoradoSprings
It may be most useful to think of a "politics of terror."People-and states-carry out terror for the sake of terror. The senselessness is the point,even as our brains desperately seek to make logical connections and find explanations bit.ly/3GPlhss #quote #ColoradoSprings
police cars parked near the "Happy New Year" banner ... rabbit lanterns decorate downtown streets where deadly silence rules bit.ly/3Hmi5UW #tanka #poety #micropoetry #poem #gunviolence #massshooting #MontereyPark #ChineseNewYear #USA #Politics