You’re fired!

Hey America!
What are you doing
with blood on your hands?
I saw you shoot your lady
and the rest of your clan.
And that ain’t cool brother!

Mary had a little lamb.
Shoot em. Bang bang!
No you didn’t,
you’re all dead.

Hey America!
What are you gonna do
with those gun laws
in your head?

I tell you what
I’m gonna do.
I’m gonna shoot up
the neighbourhood instead.

Hey dude?
Whatcha doing
pointing that gun
to my head?
I’m gonna shoot em all
who haven’t got
a gun lobby tattoo
on their hands.

Jack and Jill
went up the hill
and I shot em.

Little Jack Horner
sat dead in the corner
the killer got away.

Hey America!
Whatcha gonna do
with blood on your hands?

Nothin! We shot him!

Author's Note

Poem based on Hey Joe by Jim Hendrix

Reviews

[keith]

an interesting write that needed more than one read
my political stance is well noted
i applaud your creative writing
it passes the message well!

[andrew mitchell]

Thank you Keith for your words. Yes Australia got tough on gun ownership in the early eighties after our massacre. Been nearly 50 yrs, nearly fifty years without a massacre, it does work.

[keith]

sad to say it will not change here
americans are stupid stupid stupid
we make the same mistakes over and over and over
most still believe their s**t don't stink