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Tuesday, March 23, 2021

THE NEW MATH

by Howie Good




If a total of eight people
are shot to death
at three massage parlors
in Atlanta, Georgia,
 
and the following week
10 people are shot
to death at a supermarket
in Boulder, Colorado,
 
how long before
the next mass shooting
in the U.S. occurs?
 
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Howie Good's most recent poetry collection is Gunmetal Sky, available from Thirty West Publishing.