A    former police officer clutching gun and knife
rampaged through neighborhoods, lashing out against life—

so many massacres of innocents,
bloody days.

Three-Year-Old Paveenut with pigtails, blanketed asleep:
eleven classmates butchered      | a lone surviver |
forweep

endless reports of mass killings,
the blood stains.

Ғ⋂Ͻk
runners amuk:
robust the red flags
and lock ’em up
behind bars lonely,
with only the company
of thundermugs.

*[ WSB ]_.