He killed several people in a haze of bullets, what was his reason, the note doesn’t say.
Miles away she shot two classmates on the very same day.
Another campus shooter takes out a crowd in a shooting spree.
Just moments earlier all in class were expressing glee.
Strangers far away from the scene
putting thoughts together what does it all mean?
Not directly effected they are merely an onlooker,
stressing just the same in this pressure cooker.
Tornado devastation in the Midwest someone’s turning up the heat.
Daytime television dials up a degree old crime stories displaying bloody bed sheets.
National news headline stories from your own neighborhood faces you recognize.
The pressure cooker is closing in on our personal lives.
Put a frog in a boiling pot and he’ll jump right out,
but slowly turn up the heat and hear the whistle blow as steam releases from the spout.
Smoker’s Lungs
3 months ago
That pressure cooker is boiling hot,
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Slowly bubbling, its a waiting game,
Will it explode? what will remain?
Seeping over the edge, its a ticking bomb,
Pushed to the point, it seems so wrong,
Cracks start appearing, in the weakest spot,
That pressure cooker has started to rot.
*could not resist it Mark :D, my little version*
much appreciated...as I said the creativity is quite similar...we both have a gift of spontaneity
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