by Gilbert Allen
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January 1
If the world seems cold
to you, perhaps
you’ve already fired.
January 6
Stop
the Magnetometers!
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
Guns don’t make the world
go round. Guns make
the rounds worthwhile.
Ash Wednesday
Praise the One before whom
thou needest no silencer.
April 1
We inherit our relatives, but
we can choose
our AR-15s.
Good Friday
It is more blessed to grieve
than to reprieve.
Memorial Day
Talk not of wasted
ammunition. Talk instead of those
you’ve wasted
July 4
Believe the worst
about everybody. That way
you don’t have to aim.
Labor Day
My bullets are Teflon.
My burden is light.
Halloween
Every boy
needs a blackbird
to shoot at.
Thanksgiving
Guns don’t kill turkeys.
Turkeys kill turkeys.
December 24
I am the ghost
of Kevlar passed.
New Year’s Eve
Some of us are like cannons: we don’t
like to be pushed, and we’re only happy
when loaded.
Gilbert Allen lives and writes in Travelers Rest, South Carolina. His most recent collection of poems is Believing in Two Bodies.