Psalm 17

 

Using numbers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, we found that from 2001 to 2013, 406,496 people died by firearms on U.S. soil.

CNN

Less than 420,000 Americans were killed in the whole of WW2

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1

Birth is violent

we arrive bloody

primal and pure.

Mothership

Sever rope

Mayday

Help

Lost

2

Found

Jesus

Hanging

In America

Motherland

Sever children

Filicide and milk

They depart bloody

American death is violent

3

Lost

America.

Motherships

Sinking slowly

The seventeen atolls

Once upon a time in America

Pilgrims arrived in wooden cribs

Rising slowly they made children in salem

17

Pray

Shoot sky

Seventeen times

God will not return fire

the mothership burns in the black sea

seventeen gun salutes blow gods head off.