The Killing Pill

Your drug is your cure

but it is also killing you,

It feels real nice cradled

in your hands, weighted,

a protectorate in this

overdramatic environment

that we call the U.S.

You ingest it slowly,

in little clips at first with

attractive women painted

on the barrel and a little edge

of fear that keeps you

coming back for more,

You grow complacent and

see the number of addicts

increasing but this one is

legal though and it will be fine,

it’s meant to do well,

it will cure the problem,

it will give us the illusion of

safety within our homes,

And it really is the U.S. versus

THEM, us against the world,

their ideas can’t possibly be

valid in healthcare nor gun

control, because who needs

any of those overrated ideas?

They don’t really work anyway,

let’s just keep doing what we’re

doing, clearly it’s “worked” for over

two hundred years,

it must be right, it helps the rich.

“Isn’t murder illegal?” was a response

given when I brought up gun control,

yes, you are right, and yet it happens,

I know, but clearly making it illegal isn’t

enough, ask Pulse, ask Parkland, the

list goes on,

We don’t have to arm them ourselves

though, make it less accessible, people

argue this won’t work,

then how is it working for the rest of the world?

We can ban machine guns too and attempt

to keep them out of the hands of the insane,

out of the hands of the racists, out of the

hands of anyone really unless they’re a

trained military solider defending our rights

which currently, arrogantly includes the right

to kill each other in cold blood,

We are all so afraid, and we arm that fear

with weapons, which turns a simple

conversation into a blood bath, which

keeps the fear tactics coming, in this

dystopian world that we live in where

we believe that more drugs will cure

an addiction, that feeding the fear helps,

that maybe the best answer

is to just fight fire with more fire, to

shoot up all of the people who have guns

and mean to do harm,

and yet, if we want to do harm to them,

doesn’t that make them US?

The drug is not the cure.