<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(32, 32, 32); color: rgb(32, 32, 32);" class="">Praying Over Our Childrens’ Handbasket<br class=""> (for the fourth graders of Uvalde, Texas)</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(32, 32, 32); color: rgb(32, 32, 32);" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(32, 32, 32); color: rgb(32, 32, 32); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""> </span><br style="caret-color: rgb(32, 32, 32); color: rgb(32, 32, 32);" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(32, 32, 32); color: rgb(32, 32, 32); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Unheeded voicemails from dying</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(32, 32, 32); color: rgb(32, 32, 32);" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(32, 32, 32); color: rgb(32, 32, 32); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">fourth graders blood-sacrificed to</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(32, 32, 32); color: rgb(32, 32, 32);" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(32, 32, 32); color: rgb(32, 32, 32); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">lobbying Moloch’s high priesthood.</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(32, 32, 32); color: rgb(32, 32, 32);" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(32, 32, 32); color: rgb(32, 32, 32); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""> </span><br style="caret-color: rgb(32, 32, 32); color: rgb(32, 32, 32);" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(32, 32, 32); color: rgb(32, 32, 32); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">These Disunited States of what</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(32, 32, 32); color: rgb(32, 32, 32);" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(32, 32, 32); color: rgb(32, 32, 32); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">has never been America</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(32, 32, 32); color: rgb(32, 32, 32);" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(32, 32, 32); color: rgb(32, 32, 32); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">as written at its beginning.</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(32, 32, 32); color: rgb(32, 32, 32);" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(32, 32, 32); color: rgb(32, 32, 32); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""> </span><br style="caret-color: rgb(32, 32, 32); color: rgb(32, 32, 32);" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(32, 32, 32); color: rgb(32, 32, 32); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">God bless all of us blinded and</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(32, 32, 32); color: rgb(32, 32, 32);" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(32, 32, 32); color: rgb(32, 32, 32); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">scuffling to cling to our nationwide</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(32, 32, 32); color: rgb(32, 32, 32);" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(32, 32, 32); color: rgb(32, 32, 32); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">reverence for notion.</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(32, 32, 32); color: rgb(32, 32, 32);" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(32, 32, 32); color: rgb(32, 32, 32); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""> </span><br style="caret-color: rgb(32, 32, 32); color: rgb(32, 32, 32);" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(32, 32, 32); color: rgb(32, 32, 32); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Give us this day our last gaspéd</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(32, 32, 32); color: rgb(32, 32, 32);" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(32, 32, 32); color: rgb(32, 32, 32); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">breath and forgive us our plunge</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(32, 32, 32); color: rgb(32, 32, 32);" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(32, 32, 32); color: rgb(32, 32, 32); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">down Desparation’s Cascade.</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(32, 32, 32); color: rgb(32, 32, 32);" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(32, 32, 32); color: rgb(32, 32, 32); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""> </span><br style="caret-color: rgb(32, 32, 32); color: rgb(32, 32, 32);" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(32, 32, 32); color: rgb(32, 32, 32); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">They shout that our country’s going</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(32, 32, 32); color: rgb(32, 32, 32);" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(32, 32, 32); color: rgb(32, 32, 32); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">to hell in a hand basket but</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(32, 32, 32); color: rgb(32, 32, 32);" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(32, 32, 32); color: rgb(32, 32, 32); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">they’ve said so since its founding.</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(32, 32, 32); color: rgb(32, 32, 32);" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(32, 32, 32); color: rgb(32, 32, 32); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""> </span><br style="caret-color: rgb(32, 32, 32); color: rgb(32, 32, 32);" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(32, 32, 32); color: rgb(32, 32, 32); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">When the vision filled water</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(32, 32, 32); color: rgb(32, 32, 32);" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(32, 32, 32); color: rgb(32, 32, 32); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">glass falls and has shattered,</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(32, 32, 32); color: rgb(32, 32, 32);" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(32, 32, 32); color: rgb(32, 32, 32); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">its substance unfurls dark as blood.</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(32, 32, 32); color: rgb(32, 32, 32);" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(32, 32, 32); color: rgb(32, 32, 32); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""> </span><br style="caret-color: rgb(32, 32, 32); color: rgb(32, 32, 32);" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(32, 32, 32); color: rgb(32, 32, 32); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Can You in truth deliver us</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(32, 32, 32); color: rgb(32, 32, 32);" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(32, 32, 32); color: rgb(32, 32, 32); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">from political cupidity</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(32, 32, 32); color: rgb(32, 32, 32);" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(32, 32, 32); color: rgb(32, 32, 32); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">for contributions and control?</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(32, 32, 32); color: rgb(32, 32, 32);" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(32, 32, 32); color: rgb(32, 32, 32); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""> </span><br style="caret-color: rgb(32, 32, 32); color: rgb(32, 32, 32);" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(32, 32, 32); color: rgb(32, 32, 32); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Colorless white men in power</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(32, 32, 32); color: rgb(32, 32, 32);" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(32, 32, 32); color: rgb(32, 32, 32); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">exhibit quisling cowardice</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(32, 32, 32); color: rgb(32, 32, 32);" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(32, 32, 32); color: rgb(32, 32, 32); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">in service to mighty paymasters</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(32, 32, 32); color: rgb(32, 32, 32);" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(32, 32, 32); color: rgb(32, 32, 32); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""> </span><br style="caret-color: rgb(32, 32, 32); color: rgb(32, 32, 32);" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(32, 32, 32); color: rgb(32, 32, 32); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">not minding voicemails from dying</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(32, 32, 32); color: rgb(32, 32, 32);" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(32, 32, 32); color: rgb(32, 32, 32); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">fourth graders surrendered to</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(32, 32, 32); color: rgb(32, 32, 32);" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(32, 32, 32); color: rgb(32, 32, 32); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">lobbying Moloch’s high priesthood.</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(32, 32, 32); color: rgb(32, 32, 32);" class=""><br class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(32, 32, 32); color: rgb(32, 32, 32);" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>- Ed Coletti</span></div></body></html>