Transactional Facts Of Life

We’ve seen this film before

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you were walking
across campus, on
your way to your
next math student
for a one on one
session

sipping a coffee,
looking for a
place to sit
when —

BANG!

your life was cut short
by a fourteen year old
student with an
AR-15 rifle

only in America!

that freedom-
loving land

with its well-heeled
politicians in three-
piece suits paid for
by the NRA

and your ghost
left your body
right quick

to survey the
bloody damage
below

your body along
with a few dead
teachers and ten
bleeding children
littered across the
campus lawn