A Madman and His Manifesto

by Chris Butler

On full auto,
whether it be
desperation for attention,
a legacy everyone
would rather forget,
mental illness
or just your everyday
monster,

types one hundred pages
of grammatical errors,
misspellings and gibberish
and posts warnings all over
sites for freedom of speech,

to prove there is
no right to life
in a classroom
with students hiding
under their desks,
waiting for the monster
and his endless ammunition
to walk down the hall
and open their door.

But there are so many
mass shooters,
no one is going to remember
the last one
because there will always be
a next one.