Cause & Effect
Think of this
With your last breath
Living is
The cause of death
Down the Tubes
You’ll grow increasingly fond of the past
Becoming very hard to ignore
If every day you experience
Is worse than the one before
Frigonometry
People are unreliable
They’re here one day, then gone
It’s the reason wise people recognize
Numbers are
all we can count on
Legalitease
When someone breaks the law
People curse
But when the law breaks a person
That’s worse
Guns
Another shooting, nothing’s new
And nothing’s really changed
The “thoughts and prayers” are flowing, true
Our “leaders” are deranged
A Texas school’s the latest one
To bring us such remorse
And God was mad and video games
Were causes, but of course
It’s strange the things the leaders blame
They relish the confusion
And also all the perks that come
With NRA collusion
It’s long past due that we should hug
Our daughters and our sons
And silence politicians smug
Taking money for pushing guns
Kevin Ahern is an Oregon State University professor Emeritus of Biochemistry and Biophysics. In his retirement, he writes verses.
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