Mandalay Melody

Remove the guns, the wild west is already won!

Mandalay Melody

Cowboy boots lie abandoned,

without a cowboy in sight,

lead singer leaves

a stage without a song.

Fifty-eight country loving people fall

to a hot lead onslaught,

while five hundred others suffer

and thousands struggle to survive.

The chorus tonight is on automatic,

repeat, repeat,

repeat,

as the stylus sticks

in rifled groves,

bump stock applied.

No more country music

as the Route 91 Harvest Festival 

abruptly ends

with only a trigger happy

confusing

pop, pop, pop,

pop. pop

from on 32nd floor.

 

08/10/17

Reviews

[Coyote Poetry]

Hard topic my friend. Gun need human hands to kill. In the USA. Too many people filled with anger and hate. Taking the guns away won't fix problems. No jobs, no opportunity and struggle. It will get worst. Thank you John for sharing your words and thoughts.
Coyote

[Leslie Philibert]

John often writes about actual events..and rightly so, this is a fine poem about a terrible tragedy, and all the loss of life..does anybody understand why this happened ?

[John Alexander McFadyen]

Many thank yous Leslie, hope all is well.

[wordman]

nice tribute john,but we will need many more,we can`t stop evil

[John Alexander McFadyen]

I think you are right Ron but we must try don't you think? Many thanks for reading.

[wordman]

it would be great to stop it all john,but history tells a different story

[John Alexander McFadyen]

I know you are right dear friend but I just wish it was not so.

[wordman]

there will be another one soon,it will be worse than this one,the world is full of evil and idiots willing to catty it out