ASSASSINATION DAY

ASSASSINATION DAY

This is what
Happens when
Social Media
Divides humanity
Creates fodder for
The storm &
Influences the young
Who do not understand
The true reality of their
Consequences

Perhaps
Special needs

Not a hero
Just a kid

Perhaps
Sees the classic
Villain on a TV
Screen

But the
Villain is real
This is not a
Movie or a repeat or
A video game

The false messiah?
The false victim?

His lies
His hate
Screaming
And tearing a
Hole in the fabric
Of democracy

Our world

This is not Kennedy, Lincoln
Or Julius Caesar, Gandhi,
Ronald Reagan or
Martin Luther King

By far

This is not
A reality TV show
But a nightmare
Living now

A bystander
An innocent

Dead

And now
The grifter
The monster
Uses the shock
Sorrow & situation
At hand

To make himself
A false hand, protected
By some God

Using the same
Tools that influenced
Some sad mentally challenged
20 year old child with a rifle

To spread more lies
To the masses

Not giving
A single shit

Not one

About
Who dies
To make him
Forever

“Great”

His weapon?

The media

Far more powerful
Than any loaded

Gun.

~ R.M. Engelhardt
©2024

“What concerns me is that man, unable to articulate, to express himself adequately, reverts to action. Since the vocabulary of action is limited, as it were, to his body, he is bound to act violently, extending his vocabulary with a weapon . . .”

― Joseph Brodsky