Praying Over Our Childrens’ Handbasket - Ed Coletti

[Larry Robinson]

Praying Over Our Childrens’ Handbasket
 (for the fourth graders of Uvalde, Texas)
 
Unheeded voicemails from dying
fourth graders blood-sacrificed to
lobbying Moloch’s high priesthood.
 
These Disunited States of what
has never been America
as written at its beginning.
 
God bless all of us blinded and
scuffling to cling to our nationwide
reverence for notion.
 
Give us this day our last gaspéd
breath and forgive us our plunge
down Desparation’s Cascade.
 
They shout that our country’s going
to hell in a hand basket but
they’ve said so since its founding.
 
When the vision filled water
glass falls and has shattered,
its substance unfurls dark as blood.
 
Can You in truth deliver us
from political cupidity
for contributions and control?
 
Colorless white men in power
exhibit quisling cowardice
in service to mighty paymasters
 
not minding voicemails from dying
fourth graders surrendered to
lobbying Moloch’s high priesthood.

	- Ed Coletti
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