By Remy Dambron
Imagine instead
if we incentivized our citizens
to stalk and spy on
to report and incriminate
those among us preparing
for an assault,
purchasing pistols
brandishing rifles and boasting bump stocks
customizing scopes and fastening silencers
loading up on boxes of bullets intended
to pierce our flesh
to break our bones
to end the beating
of the bleeding hearts
of our brethren.
I wonder then
how the conversation
about the sanctity of life
would go.
Remy is an activist whose work focuses on denouncing political corruption and advocating for social justice. His poetry has appeared in What Rough Beast, New Verse News, Poets Reading the News, Society of Classical Poets, and Writers Resist. He credits his wife, also his chief editor, for his growth and development as a Portland-based writer. Visit Remy’s website.
Illustration by Stephen Melkisethian via a Creative Commons license.
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