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Gundrunk Blues

from Songs for Leaving by A.S. Coomer

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Bullets pump from the chambers of our magnum hearts
Lead and cordite course through our clotted veins
Poisoned blood singing songs of annihilation
Psalms of death

Our love on sale in the gun case
Thoughts & prayers scribbled illegibly on the receipt
All sales final, no returns

We told our children we’d do better
That this would never happen again
Not to us but here we are
Toeing the line
Nearing the cliff
Falling

Is there no bottom?

Hear the spent rounds
Clink against each other
Ceaselessly tolling death knells
Never-ending
Hear the classroom doors locking
In vain
Hear the school chairs thrown away
From the knee-high tables
Panting fear huddled underneath
Shaking
Crying
Helpless

Feel the impact before you hear the blast

When will the body count be high enough?
Isn’t one too many?
How much money will it take to save our children?
When will our politicians stop voting with their wallets?
How many more verses of this godawful song must we sing?

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Uvalde’s song slips into the stygian stream
Quit your rowing, jettison the oars
Give up bailing on the rising water
It’s useless if we let this divide chasm
If we don’t stop the darkness
From flooding in
We’re all going down with this ship

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from Songs for Leaving, released November 25, 2022
This poem was published by Topical Poetry in June of 2022.

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A.S. Coomer Elizabethtown, Kentucky

Folk. Americana. Narratives. Ambient Instrumentals. Aubades. Nocturnes. Poetry. Rock & roll. Psychedelia. Alt- Country.

Five of my tunes were published by The Museum of Americana.

Rural Eminence Volumes One, Two, & Three are instrumental reflections of the rural life.

Songs for Leaving is a poetry/music fusion.

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