at least 3 children
and 3 adults killed
in Nashville elementary
school shooting
the shooter was a teenage female
(they said)
unalived
by gunfire with the police

we’re only in fucking march
and it is the 129th
mass shooting in the USA this year

to the Congressmen
and Governors
and Senators
and Politicians
and the NRA-

who rather ban tiktok
blame drag queens
and eradicate trans youth
who don’t give a damn about children
but put them in cages
who provide neither health care nor books
but bullets
and leave it to mothers and fathers,
brothers and sisters
to pay for the coffins

fuck you
and fuck your thoughts and prayers
and fuck your hypocrisy
fuck you
for rending a lip service to God
but paying service to death
your only creed being
greed, money and power
your sacrifice being everybody else
now turning one trans man’s deed
against a whole community
to turn them into demons

129 in 3 months
you buried Christ
you dug him up again
to make sure you could kill him
again and again

in each of these little ones
in each brown and black kid
in each trans youth
in each hungry child
in each indigenous child you are planning to rob

as for me, I say
Examine me, God, and know my heart;
test me, and know my thoughts.
See if there is in me any hurtful way,
and lead me along the eternal way.