We the
people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union,
open our floodgates to end political confusion, we are neither props nor
emotional blackmailers, we are citizen cops, and justice nailers, we
are the ones who know, you can’t easily track bombs that blow, limbs and
lives apart, without a heart, that the NRA has erased, by not allowing
taggits in gunpowder to be traced, that one of us found the tarp
bloodied, one of us found Congress studied a poll and a vote, not the
body in a boat, who represents our collective desire to demand, in this
our democratic hallowed land, our voice to be respected, from the
officials we elected.
Lucille Gang Shulklapper writes poetry and fiction. She has been published in many journals and anthologies, as well as in four poetry chapbooks.