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There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

Ernest Hemmingway

it’s always the same

not the same number  or ages or names not the same season   but it’s always the same  not the same shooter  or teacher or children  but always the same thoughts and prayers for the victims  always the same heartbreak  and anger and tears but never any action  for twenty three years  we are a…

our thoughts and prayers go out 

put it in a hallmark card  i could write  a generic poem  for school shootings  so we won’t have to come up  with a new message each month  how about this: our thoughts and prayers go out to your child shot in the mouth  by the other child with an AR-15 bought legally in this…

freedom isn’t free

Trigger Warning:

This post is about school shootings. I wrote this on December 1, 2021, shortly after learning about the school shooting in Oxford, Michigan which left four students dead. I put it aside until now, not knowing if I’d share it (some things I need to just get down on paper for my own…


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