45 Rounds per Minute.
My youngest brother as he went to
1. Elementary school.
2. Middle school
3. High school.
My other younger brother going to
4. College
5. The bars
6. The movie theatre
7. A concert
My mother going to
8. the grocery store.
9. A baseball game.
Or trying
10. that yoga studio
for the seventh time.
My grandmother going to
11. church.
my lawyer at
12. the courthouse
13. their mosque
My classmate at
14. her synagogue
My man going to
15. the bowling alley
My friends at
16. the clinic with
17. the doctors.
18. the nurses.
19. the phlebotomists.
20. the janitors.
My ex-roommate going to work on
21. the 2-train.
My cousin dropping off Amazon returns
22. at FedEx
23. or going to a birthday party.
24. or a garlic festival.
25. or the factory in which he works.
The friend who takes late night trips to
26. 7/11
27.. or McDonald's
28. or Walmart.
My coworker on payday while
29. making a deposit.
My neighbor at
30. an art festival
31. eating waffles.
My grandfather
32. getting gas before going to
33. the veterans home.
The lady who dresses funny and reads books to kids at
34. the library before heading to
35. A hotel.
My friend, the flight attendant, who is waiting to fly out of
36. An airport.
The drag queen at
37. the gay bar waiting for her
38. Uber.
my friend going to take a pregnancy test at
39. Planned Parenthood.
the people
40. Out in the street protesting gun violence.
The motorcyclists at
41. a restaurant
42. a stoplight
the sorority sisters decorating
43. the sorority house.
or just random people decorating
44. their own house.
45. Or anyone, anywhere, at anytime at all.
About this poem
The AR-15 with no added accessories or modifications can shoot 45 rounds per minute. Each round is designed to leave cavities roughly the size of an orange in the body. It was designed expressly for the rapid extinguishing of human life. Nothing more, nothing less.
Written on June 03, 2022
Submitted by mr.luke.swanson on June 04, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | Text too long |
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,629 |
Words | 341 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 69 |
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