Tag: #gun violence
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Gunfire
It’s past time for a rhyme When the hands of a clock Are stopped by a Glock In classrooms and churches And the shopping mall, Shots fired, people killed For no reason at all. Speechmakers have worn themselves out, Their words have little weight We already know the score by heart, We already fear our…
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Madness, July 16, 2015
This photo was taken this morning at the end of rush hour over the San Francisco Bay Bridge–it is cropped to give the illusion that there is no traffic. Wrong. Meanwhile the radio news tells me that a verdict will be read today regarding the “person” who killed people randomly in a Colorado theater and…
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Friday Fast Fiction: The Shot
Swenson eyed the clock over the front entrance—15 minutes until closing. These were always the longest minutes of the day, the time when he most expected to be robbed at gunpoint, although it had never happened. But tonight he feared more than other nights that his convenience store would be subject to crime—he had only…
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