GOOD MOURNING TO YOU

RICHARD K PATE 1957 (New Jersey)



GOOD MOURNING TO YOU
Good mourning to you,
Good mourning to you,
You’re kids are all dead,
They’ve been shot in the head,
Good mourning to you.

Good mourning to you,
Good mourning to you,
We wish it was other,
But we dare not piss off the NRA, brother,
Good mourning to you.

Good mourning to you,
Good mourning to you,
We can fix this right quick,
Give every six year old an AR with a 30-round clip!

Good mourning to you,
Good mourning to you,
We’ve hardened the schools,
With all our high-tech tools,
Good mourning to you.

Good mourning to you,
Good mourning to you,
It’s happened again, there was nothing we could do,
Deeply rooted, this kind of thing just happens under the red, white and blue,
Good mourning to you.

Good mourning to you,
Good mourning to you….

About this poem

Sadly inspired by the latest mass shootings, this poem tries to express the lunacy of our responses to same through imagery and by mimicking a familiar melody from a nursery rhyme.

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Written on May 26, 2022

Submitted by rkparc on May 27, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme AAAbbA AAccA AAxx AAddA AAaaA AA
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 779
Words 172
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 6, 5, 4, 5, 5, 2

RICHARD K PATE

Making a living as a small town architect, I also enjoy playing drums in a rock band, writing poetry and prose and painting and drawings. more…

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