US Asylum...

Previously unpublished poem by Carl Sandburg

Topics: Commentary, Politics, Sandy Hook

A departure from physics and society...for a moment.

The physics of bullets has now killed more people with the San Bernardino shooting than we have days in the year. Another one happened simultaneously in Georgia - one woman died, but still someone's one. A third one at a Target. San Bernardino is second only to Sandy Hook, and once we got over that as I've said, "it was a wrap!"*

The NRA (not responsible anytime) will respond with their usual: crickets, hunkered down under their moist rock until our news feeding frenzy blows over. This will "not be a time" to discuss a change in laws or even keeping statistics to study. We're afraid of Syrian refugees, yet the armed, short-phallic members of the NRA and their lobby have INSURED terrorists can legally purchase firearms. Black Friday when Mr. Dear shot up Planned Parenthood in Colorado, there was a massive purchase of guns. Perhaps the ones used yesterday in California. Anyone that hasn't committed a crime can pass a background check that doesn't ask if you're on Valium or Xanax.

We have 20X the gun rate murders than any similarly developed nation. An Australian baseball player lost his life in Texas...here on SCHOLARSHIP to bored teens!

There is no doubt about it: we are the United Sanitarium Asylum. We're not "states" except the state of mental illness, paranoia, misogyny, racism, sexism; xenophobia. Conspiracy carnival barkers will howl at the moon. Counting down until Alex Jones invariably calls this a "false flag operation." He'll sell a lot of hurriedly produced DVDs (we didn't have to wait long). Flaccid, feckless, impotent lawmakers not worthy of the oath they took to "protect and defend" The Constitution against all enemies, foreign and DOMESTIC will simultaneously Tweet their "thoughts and prayers" and call for less gun-free zones as their financiers/benefactors have scripted them to say. They'll otherwise do NOTHING since their gated neighborhoods have tactical guards armed-to-the-teeth to protect them and their families. Yours and mine are cannon fodder.

I think...we need a fence. Not just a Trump fence on the Texas-Mexico border, but across the Northern Canadian border.

We need a UN naval blockade on the East Coast and as far out as Hawaii and as north as Alaska.

We need to broadcast a travel advisory to the planet:

DANGER! The USA is hazardous to your health. A worldwide quarantine is ordered. Travel to America AT YOUR OWN RISK!

Lastly, we need to offer Visas to the sane of us that just want out.

Time, their own arsenals and Darwin will take care of the idiots left!

*#P4TC: Fait Accompli...