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Array ( [sid] => 45795 [catid] => 1 [aid] => mick [title] => Ask Your President [time] => 2004-05-01 21:37:43 [hometext] => When so many die, for such an unexcusable reason, it is an American Tragedy... [bodytext] => A boy with no future,
robs a bank with his friend.
Hostages taken,
twelve ended up dead.
A girl with a troubled past,
brings a gun to school.
No one notices,
until she shoots-one dead.
A young arsonist,
lights a fire in the trash.
Walks away,
ninty-nine dead.
A drunk with a Jeep,
takes a cruise,
one Friday night,
a crash-five dead.
Someone asked me,
how is it possible,
that thousands of people die,
every day,
at the hands of an idiot.
I replied,
"Go ask your President." [comments] => 2 [counter] => 207 [topic] => 8 [informant] => 2ndChance [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 4 [ratings] => 1 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => AmericanTragedy )

Ask Your President

Contributed by 2ndChance on Saturday, 1st May 2004 @ 09:37:43 PM in AEST
Topic: AmericanTragedy

A boy with no future,
robs a bank with his friend.
Hostages taken,
twelve ended up dead.
A girl with a troubled past,
brings a gun to school.
No one notices,
until she shoots-one dead.
A young arsonist,
lights a fire in the trash.
Walks away,
ninty-nine dead.
A drunk with a Jeep,
takes a cruise,
one Friday night,
a crash-five dead.
Someone asked me,
how is it possible,
that thousands of people die,
every day,
at the hands of an idiot.
I replied,
"Go ask your President."

Copyright © 2ndChance ... [ 2004-05-01 21:37:43]
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Re: Ask Your President (User Rating: 1 )
by Diatribe on Saturday, 1st May 2004 @ 09:41:57 PM AEST
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good job

Re: Ask Your President (User Rating: 1 )
by Archie on Sunday, 2nd May 2004 @ 09:50:21 AM AEST
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In a way I understand how you feel, in 1993 my brother was killed by a drunk driver; to make it worse it was a police officer on duty. Each person should be responsible for their own actions or rather there should be laws to make a person responsible. One further note: Emotionally it took a long time for me to learn to talk about my brother's death, the officer was not made to pay for his actions. For the sake of my heart I took a different stance than my family -I chose to forgive, I hope this helps. Very good poem and for me emotional.

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