Poem of the Week: Marc A. Drexler

         

   

2nd Grader Killed by Stray Bullet         

children in

certain neighborhoods

should know better than to

sit by a window

& if

2nd Grader Killed by Stray Bullet

had the luxury of

electricity

maybe she would have sat by a lamp but

2nd Grader Killed by Stray Bullet

needed light for her

homework.

just 50 blocks from

2nd Grader Killed by Stray Bullet

us congress enacts price supports

for crime lords called

war on drugs

so a few pennies worth of

crack cocaine commands

$dollars$dollars$dollars$

to fund campaign contributions.

in rich neighborhoods people just

buy the shit but

poor addicts need

armed robbery or purse snatching

to slake their jones or they join

gangs that sell it to get their

cut. plenty of money to go around

well worth the risk &

she's small so

2nd Grader Killed by Stray Bullet's

casket won't cost much.

-Marc A. Drexler

 

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I don't like hierarchy. I don't like labels. I formally resigned from society when I was twelve. I believe in collectivism, an organizational structure where we all are equal. I worked for 14 years at the Maryland Food Collective. I am currently a member of the Earth Collective, a group of roughly 7 billion people who make all the decisions on how we interact with our planet.

     

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