Frivolous....Thoughts....And Prayers - Who The Hell Does That Protect Poem by James B. Earley

Our inaction...no infraction
....But criminal - interaction
"Thoughts and prayers" thus unkind
...To Sandy Hook's....first graders
Time's impassioned crusaders...
And all the other school-kids...left behind
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A nation seeing guns...as fun
...Then one day...tragedy comes...
In bogus "thoughts and prayers"
...Thus sadly...we succumb

Holding it always at the ready
....Dispensing prayer...right on time
Sandy Hook's first graders....
Knew society's....ominous sign

......Oft-times now repeated
Thus nothing indeed has changed
Only names and places...simply
...Dates and faces...rearranged

Of America's hapless children
...Trapped...in waiting...crosshairs
The pious shit we offer them...
'Tis...gratuitous..."thoughts and prayers"

Those the youth of our tomorrow
......Folks we intentionally....neglect
Sending frivolous "thoughts and prayers"
....Who the hell does that protect
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Our inaction...no infraction
....But criminal - interaction
"Thoughts and prayers" so unkind
...To Sandy Hook's....first graders
Time's impassioned crusaders...
And all the other school-kids...left behind