Kate Kretz, “Cri de Cœur (Heart Cry)” (2018, after a detail of “Scène du Déluge,” 1827, by Joseph-Désiré Court), graphite on paper, 14 x 11 inches (courtesy of the artist).
While I understand poetic license, I’ll just add this is a father’s nightmare, too. That said, powerful artwork and poetry from Kate Kretz…
Here
the bitter dusty old men
dream
of the battle they shoulda won at Gettysburg
or finally
showing Daddy they could be a man
(in the street at High Noon)Here
the young ones (who can’t get laid)
are
momentarily
Duke Nukem from Bulletstorm Full Clip
(in overkill mode, for extra points)
Finally scoring.Here
another walking-anger-management-issue
finds a people-killing machine
(no problem)
It fires
fast and hard
a jolt
to finally feel something
Make their mark.Here
mothers
must forever wade in the nightmares that
their children
might be the next collateral damage
in
yet another lost man’s
fantasy
of self-actualization
Via Hyperallergic.
This is a fear I never want(ed) to feel, not for my kids nor anyone else’s.
Yesterday a friend’s child got rushed to hospital for a life-threatening skull fracture, and somewhere in there I dared to think, At least it’s not gun violence.
What a world.
Yeah, no one should have such thoughts, but here, everyone has them, because there’s no place of safety anymore.
When sending a kid to school, a fear of them being shot should not eve be on the radar. It should not even exist in the space of all the things that can happen to them. It should be statistically somewhere between being hit by a meteorite and being hit by a lightning bolt.
What a strange country USA has become.
There are two fatalities worldwide due to Kindere Suprise eggs which were probably really just unfortunate accidents that, while tragic, will be always a risk with little children when left unsupervised. Three fatalities after literally millions and milions of Kinder Suprise egs were sold to and enjoyed by kids for decades. Kinder Suprise eggs are legally forbidden in US in the name of “protecting the kids” and the ban is strongly enforced.
Children fatalities of shooting sprees or negligent gun use go into hunderds to thousands each year. And the legislators do not even lift a finger to prevent that.
The constitution worship has to end. It is unhealthy.
Neil Geiman got American Gods so wrong.
The strongest God in America is gun, and he grows stronger and stronger with the blood of children.
Reminds me of Bob Dylan’s Masters of War and its lyrics :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2mabTnMHe8
Sums up the NRA well. Though
Is what first sprang into my mind here.
PS. For those who haven’t already seen it (or want tosee again) this First Dog on the Moon cartoon linked earlier here :
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2018/02/19/i-dont-even-want-to-imagine/
on Pharyngula is also powerful true art summing this up issue beautifully and powerfully.
The bloodthirstiness of Christian America does seem to promote their death-cult.