<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: "Libre Baskerville", "sans serif"; font-size: 28px; letter-spacing: 2px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">A Poem on Gun Control</span></div><div><br></div><div>by StephenM. Dickey</div><div><br></div><div><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; -webkit-hyphens: auto; font-family: "Libre Baskerville", "sans serif"; font-size: 14px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">Lefties, in fact, are cool with using guns.<br style="box-sizing: inherit;">Their Mayakovsky howled <span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-style: italic;">The floor is yours,</span><br style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-style: italic;">Comrade Mauser!</span> as they came for the sons<br style="box-sizing: inherit;">of their serfs, knocking grimly on their doors.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; -webkit-hyphens: auto; font-family: "Libre Baskerville", "sans serif"; font-size: 14px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">What leftists won’t put up with are the guns<br style="box-sizing: inherit;">We have, who are to shut up and obey,<br style="box-sizing: inherit;">Ceding our rights, indenturing our sons.<br style="box-sizing: inherit;">So get the ball rolling… <span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-style: italic;">Μολὼν λαβέ</span>.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; -webkit-hyphens: auto; font-family: "Libre Baskerville", "sans serif"; font-size: 14px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Dreams are the backscatter of everything</span><br style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">You jettisoned, forgot, or left behind.</span><br style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Sleep leaves you in their wake, wearing their ring,</span><br style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Backpedaling forward, wide-eyed and blind.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; -webkit-hyphens: auto; font-family: "Libre Baskerville", "sans serif"; font-size: 14px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The hive-mind web is vying for control:</span><br style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The pixelariat can bend your will</span><br style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Better than proletarians, until</span><br style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Nothing is real except your inner troll.</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></body></html>