Who Killed the Dreams?

Mid-century madness,

drenched in sadness—

“Who shot JFK?”

Malcolm, too,

& who slew

M-L-K?

Bobby shot,

in a restaurant,

squeezin’ through a crowd.

(Killin’ dreams

with guns & screams

shouldn’t be allowed.)

But what are we to say,

when killers have their day,

if nobody dares to stop them?

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