Incitement
Shots ring out in the morning air
Death comes to young and old
Snuffed out by madness
Madness enflamed
Madness incited
Madness called upon
Madness condoned
With targets, speech and fear
Of violent rhetoric en masse
You called for this day
Asked for it
And it came
It came and a nine year old is gone
It came and a judge is dead
It came and left others lost
And still more, clinging to life
You – Palin, Angle, Bachmann, Perry, teabaggers
Blood is on your lips
Copyright SGW 2011
Footnote: Perhaps the Arizona shooting was not caused by the violent rhetoric in this country in any way. However, the incitement has created a climate and that is real. In that way, I find a correlation between the shooting and the inciters.
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