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THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS
How vulgar are "thoughts and prayers"
To the victims of gunshots and tears.
The thoughts of apes and vultures
Salute the laws of savages
With prayers that spit at grief.
We wail from our skulls,
Wail from our bowels.
They call the bullets "rounds",
They call those bleeding "hit",
And call the dead as "down",
Like children in a playground
Of whimsical massacres.