The Rulers
We are teachers today and kids.
We are kids today and teachers.
We are thirteen years old stabbing
our professor in the playground
at Thomasia Montoro public school
in São Paulo. We are twenty eight
years old and female with two
automatic rifles and a handgun
killing three nine-year-olds
and three sixty-somethings
at the Covenant school
in Nashville. What distinguishes
a public from private, state
from religious school? Nothing.
Nothing. Nothing. In each
guns and knives rule.
Indran Amirthanayagam c) March 27, 2023