{"id":1452,"date":"2014-04-03T12:29:37","date_gmt":"2014-04-03T17:29:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/?p=1452"},"modified":"2014-04-03T12:39:02","modified_gmt":"2014-04-03T17:39:02","slug":"poem-owed-fort-hood-shootings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/03\/poem-owed-fort-hood-shootings\/","title":{"rendered":"POEM: Owed to Fort Hood Shooting(s)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Owed to Fort Hood Shooting(s)<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Welcome to the hood<\/span>
\nA fort of freedom<\/span>
\nBilled upon violence<\/span>
\nUp in arms<\/span>
\nWith billions in cache<\/span>
\nYet what remains<\/span>
\nUnexplained<\/span>
\nBodies of evidence<\/span>
\nAbout faces<\/span>
\nAmbushed from deep within<\/span>
\nSow unlike<\/span>
\nThe enemy without<\/span>
\nA projection of force<\/span>
\nThat no’s know end<\/span>
\nUnited in states<\/span>
\nOf con-stir-nation<\/span>
\nAnd the perennial just<\/span>
\nPlane crazy<\/span>
\nCalling 911<\/span>
\nAfter years<\/span>
\nIn the making<\/span>
\nVeterans in abandonment<\/span>
\nThe hunters now haunted<\/span>
\nBy the whores of war<\/span>
\nPawned by kings (and occasional queens)<\/span>
\nAnd all that is rank<\/span>
\nSold on commissions<\/span>
\nAs common privates beholden<\/span>
\nMajor embarrassment<\/span>
\nCorporal punishment<\/span>
\nAll under general doody <\/span>
\nA mirror lineup of quirks<\/span>
\nCockeyed foibles<\/span>
\nAnd proverbial whoppers<\/span>
\nAwe mything the point<\/span>
\nSow full of holes<\/span>
\nAs we are believed of command<\/span>
\nOnly hoping<\/span>
\nTo return<\/span>
\nTo our census<\/span>
\nAs children of God<\/span>
\nOnly to escape<\/span>
\nOur brood<\/span>
\nIn a sense lost forever<\/span>
\nHaving gone<\/span>
\nOwed school<\/span>
\nNo longer<\/span>
\nAs easy as ABCD<\/span>
\nComing of age in PTSD<\/span>
\nBrain injuring and heart rendering <\/span>
\nEquivocating murder and suicide<\/span>
\nIn such grievous measures<\/span>
\nOf military debasement<\/span><\/p>\n

My heart goes out to all affected by the tragedy at yesterday’s murders and suicide at Fort Hood.\u00a0 Today, I’ll just let my poem speak for itself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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