{"id":7242,"date":"2025-06-06T09:50:48","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T13:50:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/?p=7242"},"modified":"2025-06-06T09:50:48","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T13:50:48","slug":"poem-guise-with-guns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/06\/poem-guise-with-guns\/","title":{"rendered":"POEM: Guise With Guns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Guns don&#8217;t kill people; bullets ripping through organs, flesh, and bones do. GUN VIOLENCE = MEANNESS X FEAR<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Guise With Guns<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>It hit me in a flash<br \/>\nSeeing through<br \/>\nGuise with guns<br \/>\nThey are more frayed<br \/>\nThan I am<br \/>\nIn efface of weepin&#8217;s<br \/>\nMore be deviled<br \/>\nPossessing weapons<br \/>\nFore all won knows<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s a bout<br \/>\nBarren arms<br \/>\nAnd that piece of mine<br \/>\nIf you can never have<br \/>\nEnough<br \/>\nYou might<br \/>\nAs well<br \/>\nGauge it to be<br \/>\nA canon<br \/>\nThe mortar that holes together freedom<br \/>\nAs sow much more than passing ordnance<br \/>\nBurying bodies of evidence<br \/>\nDaze upon daze<br \/>\nAs in life<br \/>\nTaking<br \/>\nLazy aim<br \/>\nLo, the necessary evil of the hood<br \/>\nThe bravado of white hats<br \/>\nLook out<br \/>\nUp on that green<br \/>\nAnd burgeoning red<br \/>\nOf renegade lawn enforcement<br \/>\nCaught<br \/>\nIn a cross fire<br \/>\nUpgraded from sticks and nails<br \/>\nPreserving the clan<br \/>\nDefending their own<br \/>\nBye all rights<br \/>\nWise guys<br \/>\nReady and Abel<br \/>\nSmoking more than grass<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guns don&#8217;t kill people; bullets ripping through organs, flesh, and bones do. 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