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You
there’s a
thorn
stuck inside
my chest,
it throbs in pain
every ****
time when
someone says
your name


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 Dec 2017 Halsea Callis
Elioinai
give me a gold dress
to match my soul
I Don't Like Guns...But

they make my husband feel
like a man and help him bond
with our sons.  

I don't like them or how he
describes the way they feel in
his hand:  "Better than a ***",  
I heard him confide to his pal, Joey...

but something has to protect  us.  
I mean it's our right to be on guard.  
It's our right.

My husband spends all his
time with his guns:  cleaning them,
polishing the barrels, studying their
details.  And talking...talking about
his gun rights, about his next NRA
meeting or  what happened at the
last or that he can't believe how
good the right gun in his hand feels.  

I don't like guns...they made me                   disappear.


Written for GUNS DON'T SAVE PEOPLE POETS DO:  DUELING WITH WORDS TO STOP GUN VIOLENCE. ..a Facebook group
 Dec 2017 Halsea Callis
Barker
Love is the true enemy.
It isn't a soft knock.
It's like a hurricane,
It comes in fast and reckless,
And it leaves just as fast as it came
(c)ibarker
A lightning rod for pain
                    clap
Thunder in the distance firing on all pistons
                    clap
Time slows and I'm thrown to center stage
                    clap
I hear them whisper the lines I can't remember
                    *clap
seize the deed to my heart
A hollow house that you could turn into a home
maybe give it a few stories
sometimes you write and find that the story is best told in a few lines.
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