Rifles

Wishing i could make you love you enough
to carry you instead of rifles
as if it’s really an equation
you are me we are they
bullet play
I used to think they were the same thing
any means necessary, last day obituary brothers
there’s petty crime on the front lines
and blood in my eyes cause i can’t define the finished line
we post lookout on your shoulders
our strategies in tact
police boast as if it’s all over, but our
strategies in tact . . .[meanwhile] we’re tripping over
trophies posed as terrorist attacks.
~Yvonne Gilmore, Rifles

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