Monday, March 27, 2023

The Rulers, a poem. Indran Amirthanayagam

 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  


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