"Since 2015, police have fatally shot more than 6,400 people."
I remember long ago
our grade school textbooks pealed
with praises for the men in blue --
our nation's finest shield.
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But now I am distressed to find,
according to statistics,
the cops don't care a fig for law
but only for ballistics.
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It's like the days of Wyatt Earp
and necktie parties, too;
police are shooting from the hip
at every bugaboo.
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There's too much gun play in the land;
too many screws are loose --
I hope police and public can
work out some kind of truce.
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For otherwise this frail old man
that I've become today
will simply lock my door for good
and in my bunker stay . . .
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