poet on fire

titotitus:

The dead people don’t say anything.  They just lie around the shopping mall, wishing they wore clean underwear that day.  The gun with the hot barrel didn’t even know what happened.  It just felt good, shooting off that way. In the following days, Arizona gun sales soared higher than the sweet desert sun.

Boom boom boom.

Can’t get enough

of that bang bang stuff.

Boom boom boom.

Gotta get more

Gotta get down

to the bang bang store.

Boom boom boom.

Gotta get a bang bang

Gotta get a gun

Gotta be a hero

Have some fun.

Boom boom boom.

Holster on my hip

looks real neat

Gotta get a gun,

pack some heat

A little bit of bang bang

can’t be beat.

Boom boom boom.

Gotta get guns

Gotta get a lot

Gotta make bang bang

In a parking lot.

Boom boom boom.

Gotta hear the bang bang

Gotta hear it loud

Gotta make a bang bang

In a big crowd.

Boom boom boom.

Boom boom boom

Boom boom boom

Can’t get enough

Of that bang bang stuff.

Boom boom boom.

Boom boom boom.

Boom boom boom.

NOTES:

1.    Poet on Fire wrote this satirical rant in anger, during the days following the attempted assassination of Democratic Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and murder of several others on January 8, 2011.  During that same period, according to news reports, gun sales in Arizona spiked. That pattern repeats in Colorado in the days following the Batman movie killings in Aurora.

2.    The assassination/murder weapon was a Glock 23. In August, 2011, not yet eight months later, the Republican Party of Pima County, Arizona (in which Tucson is located) raffled a Glock 23 which, according to news reports, was “highly successful”. During the months prior to the armed assault on Congresswoman Giffords and a dozen others, former Governor Sarah Palin maintained a website which depicted a gun telescope-sight aimed at Giffords’ district as well as others.

3.    Poet on Fire performed this piece only once—on June 12, 2011 at the Faire Gallery/Café/Bar in Seattle, as part of the Floating Mountain Poets’ Naked Truth Show. The performance included drumming by Tom Nivision.

~Tito Titus