1.
Police announced “lull”
In “gun homicides” today:
Four days without deaths.
2.
No paradigm shift
The homicides continued
Just by other means.
3.
Chicago Police
Celebrate “small victories”
We still had stabbings
4.
The death toll rises
As the mercury plummets
Chiraq in winter.
5.
This gun violence
Arms Trump with ammunition
His rhetoric needs.
6.
Politicians know
We need more than free turkeys;
We need employment.
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Keith M. Kelley | Poet 