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Writer's pictureShane Gannaway

7/4/2023

fireworks crack in the outside sky

and the dog is asleep through it all.


mass shooting after mass shooting

in the land of the free and brave.


the dog knows nothing of this. that

is ignorance to be blissful about.


tomorrow another one will take a life

in a nation at war with itself. salute


the gun. it is self-evident.

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