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Daniel Baldwin's avatar

Cut down in their prime,

Vibrant yet wilting, fading,

Falling to pieces.

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Honeygloom's avatar

That’s really beautiful. 🖤

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Caleb Taylor's avatar

Yeah this is impactful

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Caro Henry's avatar

In memoriam:

Haunting cries echo

Rictus grin as he levels

His AR-15

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Honeygloom's avatar

Ooof, that’s a gut punch. Well done🖤

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erniet's avatar

Tommy gun chatter

Glass shatters as lead impacts

Flesh splits, bone splinters

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Honeygloom's avatar

That must have been horrifying. One guy didn’t even die right away… but he refused to talk of course.

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David Perlmutter's avatar

You didn't mess with Al Capone if you were smart.

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Honeygloom's avatar

There were wise guys and there were smart guys.

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Caleb Taylor's avatar

I don’t think there’s a rule about limiting yourself to one submission, so here’s another:

Love lost on blood war

Turf war, home war, holy war

Murder your neighbor

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Honeygloom's avatar

Literally just read that there was a mass shooting today at a superbowl celebration parade. 😔

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Caleb Taylor's avatar

The shame of humanity seems to be our unwillingness to deal with our own violence

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Honeygloom's avatar

It’s takes so much effort to hurt someone when you could so easily just ignore them instead. I don’t get it.

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Caleb Taylor's avatar

I agree to an extent. But, I would also say that it often takes a great deal of effort to ignore somethings and can be terribly easy to hurt someone. We don’t do ourselves justice when we structure our lives together as a society in ways which promote violence through manufacturing hopelessness, poverty, elitism, and so on. Then, we go and make violence relatively easy to achieve through our legal system which then sustains violence by punishing through often violent means.

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Caleb Taylor's avatar

Bang! Bang! Bang! Love day

Massacre then, genocide

Today check your hands

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Honeygloom's avatar

Isn’t life grand?

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ClownWorld Shakespeare's avatar

Bells chimed, gunshots clanged

Not a single man survived!

Dying words: “I do.”

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Honeygloom's avatar

Statistically it’s usually women who don’t survive marriage. But I know you’re just being funny 😆

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ClownWorld Shakespeare's avatar

I think you might be missing the joke, which is ultimately my fault. It's that men's singlehood dies when they get married. Not that they actually die. Hence: not a SINGLE man survived.

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Honeygloom's avatar

Ah, yep! I totally missed that😂 Probably not your fault, though. I have autism and tend to be pretty literal unless I remind myself not to be 😅 I get puns, (and sometimes even make them!) but probably not as easily as most people. Brains you know? So weird.

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Daniel Baldwin's avatar

You know I love a good gangster party

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Honeygloom's avatar

I’ve been looking forward to this since January 😁

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