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Mass Shooting War

William Assad 1949 (Penn)

Free verse
Mass Shooting War
 Mass shootings shown on the news screens,
 Images of children running, women screaming.
 Innocent blood spilled every day,
 The wars of human society show his way.
 The way of life and the way of death.
 Man makes war on all that exists.
 Mass shootings of his own kind,
 War on insects that he calls pests.
 War on rodents and birds and bees
 Mass killing of what he judges as weeds.

What determines what is insane?
Mass shootings of 5 or 10 or more?
Or millions of innocents in a declared war?

About this poem

This is an expose on the way of Man !

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Submitted by billassad67 on May 16, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme AXXBBXXXXXX XAA
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 515
Words 106
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 11, 3
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