Constitutional Slaughter: Connecticut, Nevada, Florida, Texas

         Constitutional Slaughter:

Connecticut, Nevada, Florida, Texas

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“Stronger than lover’s love is lover’s hate.” ~ Medea, Euripides

The women don’t do this, except that queen.

It’s mostly males who go berserk with guns.

The women swallow hate and they go mean

Like stars that eat another star.  These ones,

These men, kill school kids, and the people at

An airhead concert, or the students on

A college campus.  Heads explode, go splat

Like Kennedy’s with people on the lawn

Not noticing.  It happens all the time

In poor pathetic corners of the states,

In poor pathetic America.  Crime

Moves closer to the norm through petty hates.

..The men know love and then it turns to death

….Sprayed out of barrels—America’s breath.