<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><span style="color: rgb(121, 123, 119); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0.3pt; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;">This poem is dedicated to every politician that has refused to pass responsible gun legislation and is a voice for those who will die in the days ahead because of our leaders’ incompetence, willful ignorance, and greed. </span><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>—————————————————</div><div><br></div><div><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 26pt; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; color: rgb(192, 0, 0);">My Arsenal<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">by Asherah<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 1rem; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(121, 123, 119); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 1rem; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(121, 123, 119); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Anger is my arsenal<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 1rem; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(121, 123, 119); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">This pen my lethal weapon<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 1rem; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(121, 123, 119); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">As I raise my voice to fight<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 1rem; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(121, 123, 119); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">This political armageddon.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 1rem; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(121, 123, 119); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 1rem; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(121, 123, 119); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">A war wrought with destruction<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 1rem; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(121, 123, 119); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Of innocent observers<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 1rem; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(121, 123, 119); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Saving victims of this violence<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 1rem; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(121, 123, 119); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">With verbal life-preservers.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 1rem; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(121, 123, 119); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 1rem; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(121, 123, 119); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">It’s all I have to offer<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 1rem; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(121, 123, 119); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">It’s all I have to give.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 1rem; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(121, 123, 119); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">These words<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 1rem; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(121, 123, 119); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">This poem<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 1rem; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(121, 123, 119); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">My honesty<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 1rem; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(121, 123, 119); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">In hopes that we may live<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 1rem; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(121, 123, 119); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 1rem; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(121, 123, 119); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Free of bloodied bullets<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 1rem; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(121, 123, 119); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">And of suffocating fear<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 1rem; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(121, 123, 119); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Unsure what lies ahead<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 1rem; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(121, 123, 119); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Our future is unclear.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 1rem; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(121, 123, 119); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 1rem; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(121, 123, 119); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Without new regulations<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 1rem; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(121, 123, 119); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">To fix this thriving issue<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 1rem; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(121, 123, 119); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Deaths from growing gun violence<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 1rem; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(121, 123, 119); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Will exponentially continue<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 1rem; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(121, 123, 119); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 1rem; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(121, 123, 119); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">My scribbles scream for help<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 1rem; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(121, 123, 119); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Its frantic pleas forsaken<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 1rem; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(121, 123, 119); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Trusting you to keep us safe<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 1rem; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(121, 123, 119); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">We were thoroughly mistaken</span></p></div>—————————————————<br><br><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">http://www.MoscowCares.net</span></div><div><br></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div><br></div><div>“A stranger is just a friend you haven’t met.”</div><div>- Roy E. Stolworthy</div><div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>