action vowed

need we mention to
mr. hope & change
that action vowed isn’t
a question of
identifying &
stigmatizing the
“mentally ill,”
as if they were all
wielding guns?

need we mention to
mr. hope & change that
the conditions of this
country lead to the actions
of its citizens, whether
they be homicidal or
suicidal?

need we point out to mr.
hope & change that
anger, violence & the
persistent ambition to do
harm, does not disappear
because one tries to
placate it or even worse,
to silence it.

now is a time to LISTEN
to those who will stop at
nothing to change this
empire that fails its own
people,
now is a time to shut the
fuck up & LISTEN---
for it is the constant
talking AT those who
are suffering,
that makes it all so
inevitable.