Burning sage.

Verbal poetry for the people murdered in Texas and Oklahoma.

Texas Governor and Ted Cruz. Texas need to buy more guns. No license needed to carry a AR-15. Guns, guns and more guns. No back-ground checks in Texas, Georgia and Tennessee. 15 years old carrying AR-15 in public is Missouri. I had to tell someone today. If my city of Detroit, the city of New York and Chicago allowed everyone to carry a AR-15. It would be a Cowboy wild west world. Keep the kids inside. Death is near. I don't know.

Republican want to arm the teachers, take out books and quit feeding the poor children in school. But the children, they can have a gun, maybe a AR-15. it is a mad, mad world.

Don't say gay in Georgia and Florida. Could be shot. Be careful, your children may wander into a Trans-bar. A Congressman said. Women are too dumb to vote and weak. I wish he met Charlotte Flair in the street for ten minutes. I served with strong women and I worked with strong women. Women are not weak and they are not dumb. 

Two mass killings in Texas in one week. The first one, the Texas Governor said. Didn't matter, just immigrants. They killed three children and five adults in a mall in Texas. Killed two sister, eight and eleven. Killed a mother and father. And their three year son. One six year son lived. Fighting for his life.

I burn sage today. I know I must do more.

John Castellenas.

Author's Note

Praying and saying.

Reviews

[FGFRANKLIN]

Over nine hundred and thirty thousand babies were butchered in 2020 in abortion clinics, ripped apart inside their own mother's wombs. And hundreds of thousands continue every year. In countries where guns are completely illegal around the world they have higher murder rates than the United States. That's a fact. El Salvador has strict gun control laws but the highest murder rate in the world. Venezuela outlawed gun ownership in 2012 but maintains the second highest murder rate in the world. But you have a myopic viewpoint on the subject. You seem to think the problem is one with guns. But it is not. And the mathematical statistics bear out that conclusion.

[Coyote Poetry]

I been to El Salvador three times as a soldier. I needed a AK-15. Been a war zone for a long, long time. I had only a 9 mm. Why is abortion involved in the conversation? Should be state controlled. We are not safe in the USA and we need more guns. No. Here in Detroit. Enough killed by handguns. Please don't pass out AK-15 to the children in Detroit. NRA people are sick. Bought and control
men. We need leaders to create jobs. Not ban books, who are racist and don't want to feed the children. Time for your men and women to become Republicans. The old ones are bought and paid for. I was a Republican and I am Ojibwa/Mexican. They want to ban history. Is this Nazi Germany? If we forget history. It will be repeated. What does math got to do with two dead sisters and a family almost wiped out. I have guns and no-one need a AK-15 unless you are going to El. Salvador. The sickness of the NRA. Guns, money and more guns and more money. Abortion and guns. Two different issues. On abortion. Not my right to decided a women decision. Not a Government to control a women decision. I believe. We still live in the USA. Remember Government and religion are separated by law. If religion is involved. Which one, would you support? I want a Buddhism and government.

[FGFRANKLIN]

What books are you talking about being banned? Could it be the perverted and pornographic material designed to challenge the sexual "identity" of students in elementary schools? Shouldn't parents be concerned about that? Abortion is there because it is murder which is what your piece seems concerned about. It doesn't matter if it's a gun or surgical tools. Dead is dead. As for anyone destroying history, the only evidence I've seen of that comes from left-wing democrats destroying Civil War statues and defaming public buildings. You can keep your Buddha and "I and my house will serve the Lord" like Joshua said in the Bible.

[Coyote Poetry]

Anne Franks book, I am not your perfect Mexican daughter, The Bluest eyes, The handmaid's tale, Go ask Alice, "banned books" and Native Americans being massacred and black history where white people enslaved a race and held them back. My father killed two men in bars for disrespecting his race and color. Women fought and won their right and the new leaders in-charge taking away. This isn't my father country, this isn't my grandfather country. Once we had freedom. Men who can't discuss gun safety. Want to talk about abortion. My Grandfather taught me. Never discuss abortion or politics. No winner in the topic. You must look at the USA. Here in the Northern States. We can see the Muslims, Judaism, Buddhism and Hinduism. We get along. I am not left-wing. I wish they would show the little girl with no head in the Texas mall and and the 19 headless children murdered in Uvalde. They would think different. We worry about abortion and we have no concern for the live ones. This is very sick. I was a soldiers. I clean-up Death Valley with my unit in the war. Men in pieces. I pray. Here in Detroit we don't become Florida, Tennessee and Georgia. Common sense gun laws. Easy. Background checks, easy. No-one need to carry a AK-15 anywhere. In the Army. Always safety first. I want the poor children to be fed and politics out of school. I worry for the live children and allow the voters to decide their abortion opinion. I am angry. People are being murdered by a weapon of war. Not to offend you. Don't worry. NRA had paid-off the needed people. It will be a bloody Summer. All I want is my world to be safe. This isn't 1880 my friend. We are not cowboys. We are families who want to go to the store, safe schools and allow the teachers to teach. In Nazi Germany. Banned and burn book and fired and killed anyone who wouldn't obey the government. In some states. They are trying to do. Just words my friend. Against the wealth of NRA. The NRA controlled men will win. My opinion is like a*****e. We all have one.

[FGFRANKLIN]

I read Go Ask Alice in junior high. It supposedly an imaginary work but haunting in its scope. I also read Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee by Dee Brown which details the eradication of native cultures in America. It's a truly great book and a worthy read. Life is life and death is death. I was merely pointing out that some things are semantics. The WHO defines life at conception. If innocent living human beings that have no voice and no choice can be legally murdered by the hundreds of thousands every year in America (and they are) by claiming it's a woman's right, then shouldn't everyone have the equal right to take life? Anyone who isn't "pro-life" is pro-death and anyone who loves death hates life. The second amendment wasn't put into our constitution because one day the founding fathers thought there might be a squirrel uprising. Go ask the people of Ukraine if they want to keep their guns. Hitler disarmed the Jews before he herded them onto cattle cars to take them to the gas chambers and crematoriums. Don't think it can't happen here. Because that's exactly what they thought.

[Coyote Poetry]

It can. Look at Tennessee and Georgia. Killing young black men in their prisons, fired two young black men who stood with the kids against guns. The Republican say racist words. And can. Trying to combine religion and government. Banning books and trying to control education. We are two-steps into more government. We need less. Killed 18 Mexicans at bus stop. Where are their photos, where are their stories? Texas Governor. Don't worry, just dead immigrants. Angry, hateful and violence men and women. Are running some states. We need books. When I was young. Adult books reading were separated and still are in Michigan. FREEDOM, freedom. Pray, we can keep her. History, bad and good. We need. White men killed my family, tried to make them white and stole our land. I live on my ancient land and the Ojibwa were forced into small spaces. Only thing left. Are names of the schools. I teach my children, my grandchildren. Once a great people, we were. How many races of Native Americans are gone? I am, like my dear grandmother. I don't hold hate. I do remember. Today. We must remember the hatred of white against black, the Chinas, the Irish , the Native Americans and now the immigrants. USA will repeat and we are. Time to seek peace. Not silence the people. NRA need more money. USA is a angry country. Thank you God, in Michigan. We don't walk around with AK-15 in the streets. We have enough death without a weapon of war everywhere. NRA bought leaders. No concern for children. Need more money. Abortion, I don't discuss. A women issue. Let the people decide. They will meet their god someday and their god will decide their faith. Good morning from Michigan.

[FGFRANKLIN]

Well, we have the most dyed in the wool racist this country has ever produced sitting in the White House right now and that can be discerned from his video recorded comments over the years. The democratic party founded the Ku Klux Klan and the republican party was formed to combat the racial hatred of the democratic party. It could be said that Lincoln was the first republican although his party is listed as "libertarian". I think you should educate yourself better on the histories and present status of both parties before rushing to conclusions drawn from watching too much CNN.

[Coyote Poetry]

23 more mass killings since the one, I wrote about. In New Mexico, eighteen years old with AK-15 killed three people and wounded five people. Two police shot. Yes, we need more guns??? Summer coming. I will stay away from the Southern States.

[FGFRANKLIN]

It's an "AR"-15 made by ArmaLite. An AK is an AK-47. The AR is only semi-automatic like a .22 caliber Marlin squirrel gun and the other is a fully automatic Avtomat Kalashnikova produced by Russia or the former Soviet Union which fires a 7.62 NATO round like the M-16. You seem to have the two confused or melded in your overwrought and confused sensitivities. It can't be life or the taking of life that concerns you since you deem the murder of hundreds of thousands of children each year "acceptable" and a "woman's issue". I'd rather be in the south than anywhere else in this crazy, mixed-up country. At least here, we actually think from more that one feverish perspective.

[Neville]

it is indeed a crazy messed up world .. I follow a Buddhist path and fully intend to burn some sage later this very day .. Neville

[Coyote Poetry]

I tried to follow the peaceful path. NRA controlled politics. They love the donors money. Thank you Neville for reading and the comment.

[Ladysue]

John, society is self destructing. We have lost our way. It is sad what is going on as your words convey whole heartedly. Society has reached a point where realization of others has no place. A ball accidentally rolls into someone’s yard and they feel they have a right to shoot you - this is the mindset we are dealing with. And of course money and power rule above all else as government is bought . It’s a tragic. Praying too my friend.

[Coyote Poetry]

Thank you dear Ladysue. I worry for my world. I am glad I live in Michigan. Still some comment sense.

[1809 Black Plague Decem..]

Dear, Cayote Poetry,
it is difficult what is write or wrong. I was passing by, and I got antoganozed.
I didn't have anoyone in sight. So, it goes both ways. It is incluclisinve in the political world.
But in the real world, there are real standards. Father, safe kept me. I am strong.
But one in a million. ---1809 Black Plague December

[Coyote Poetry]

if they posted the photos my friend. The girl in the mall in Texas. The AK-!5 shot her head off. Couldn't I.D the children in Uvalde. They had to look at their shoes and clothing. Their heads were shot off by the AK-15. Need photos. NRA controlled the media. The war ended in Vietnam when they showed the photos of death. The pro NRA leaders don't care about the children. They love the NRA money. Now attacking the teachers in many states. We are on a hell-bound path. I live in Michigan and so far. NRA leaders, do not control. Yet. Thank you for reading and the comment.

[Soren]

Coyote the world is full of tragedy made even more evident by increased media coverage and increased populations. I have spoken for a long time that we devote too little effort in prevention and focus on issues too late. We dedicate far too little to mental health issues, to poverty, to abuse, bullying, and the glorification of violence. But then it seems that no one really cares. A moving cause and write.

[Coyote Poetry]

I agree Soren. The media is controlled and the voices of calm and safety. Not heard. Thank you for reading and the comment.

[AYVID N]

Dear Coyote,
Its very sad to read where the world is going. Guns are more valued than human life and it seems no tragedy is great enough to bring about a change. We don't really care for those who were killed or for the countless who are going to be killed again. Your words are very moving and I felt your pain absolutely, my friend. I'm praying with you.

[Coyote Poetry]

It is hard dear Divya. USA controlled media and NRA control our leaders. In the USA. Mass murdered will increase. The leaders know this. Thank you for reading and the comment.

[AYVID N]

You are always welcome, dear Coyote.

[Ken Simm.]

A society that is killing its own children is a society that is dying.

[Coyote Poetry]

Some people in the USA are walking backwards. This is 2023, not 1880. Women are losing their right. The 19th Amendment being tested and destroyed. I pray for better days and thank you Ken for reading and the comment.

[Ken Simm.]

It might not have been clear in my review but I also fully support a womans right to her own body and to make her own choices.

[Ken Simm.]

I should have said that a society that is killing its own innocents where they should feel safe is dying. Guns are there to kill not defence.

[Coyote Poetry]

I agree Ken. Some places in the USA are falling backwards. They want to ban books. We need books. I love Dryden. He wrote often. England fighting everywhere. Must stop somehow. We need to read the brave writers. Who told us the truth.

[Chris Shaw]

Tragic what is taking place under our eyes. It could stop easily, if there was gun control or better still no guns at all. I weep for the lives being lost in these senseless killing sprees. How does a 15 year old get his hands on a weapon of mass destruction? Burn your sage and pray my friend. It seems there is very little else we can do, except write about it. Those in power aren’t listening. It’s a horror story likely to get worse.

Chris

[Coyote Poetry]

I hope for common sense. But dear Chris. Parts of the USA will get more dangerous. I will stay in Michigan. Still not allowed to walk around with a AK-15. Thank you dear friend for reading and the comment.