The Chicago Price
The Chicago Price
It’s mid-December, not quite years end,
Here we are forced to tell this tale again:
Chicago this time, and just before Yule,
Just another shooting of children at their school.
Benito Juarez High School, classes letting out,
One teen pronounced, another in grave doubt.
Two others with injuries, they will probably live,
But a single life taken, is one too much to give.
So now the rallying cry will be taken up again:
“Give everyone a gun, or two, or five, or ten!”
Why is it that proliferation is the cure?
How much more of this illogic will helpless children endure?
The more the guns, the more the shots, the more that people
die,
It’s that simple a chain of rationale, you don’t even have
to try.
But good ol’ Ted, and Marjorie, and simple Bobo too,
Will take their pay from the NRA so they can sell the lie to
you.
That arming teachers and locking doors and teaching children
fear,
Is the only way forward that we can take from here.
And so, Chicago, and Uvalde, and Buffalo, and Club Q,
Must pay the price so we can arm up to protect ourselves
from them…
Or maybe you…
Cliff Lake 12/16/2022
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