“Collectables” by Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB/META and @Brianrrs37 on Twitter/X)

You call them “collectables” with such bravado
Ignore the flooded market you do not really know
An average of 100 a day to their death they go

Today on your Facebook page you posted like porn
The picture of your “toy” from needless death born
Oblivious to the dangers that the experts do warn

If you call it a “hobby”, or yourself an “enthusiast”
If you ignore what a bullet can do when it hits a chest
If you do not care about the numbers put to rest

If you use the excuse that it’s not the gun
If you still talk about it like it’s nothing but fun
If you don’t care that school children have run

I have nothing but scorn, of your logic I shun
Sick is the attitude that an object has rights
Long done with this argument, I won’t give up this fight

To walk out of one’s house and to live in fright
You wont make it home from the mall tonight
This repulsive fetish obsession a blight

I don’t give a fuck about the NRA
I don’t give a damn about what they say
I am tired of the death every day

They are not collectables, it isn’t a hobby
Screw the objects and the industry lobby
You need help if you ignore all the bodies

When I was a kid, my dad often got mad
He got drunk one day and this is what he did
With me in the room, a town house at that

I was to him an inconvenient brat
He picked up his revolver, and twice he shot
To this day I have a lowboy, with a bullet notch

I was lucky but many more are not
Suicides take up the biggest slot
Second would be domestic violence

Those are forever forced to silence
I don’t want to hear about your “inconvenience”
Tired of your pseudo “patriot” defiance

The number one cause of death under the age of 18
Those in high schools , grade school and those between
It that object you think is “fun”, leave it lying around they pick up one

X out the days in the calendar year, daily mass shootings everywhere
Words like “hobby”, “enthusiast”, “collectables” says you don’t care

You are outnumbered by the sane, those who want the carnage to end
You will threaten us, like bullies and cowards, pose with your weapons
With bullets that shower, but short are the days you’ll stay in power.
(end)

Once again today I heard a selfish gun nut use the word “toy” and “collectables”. If you use those words that says to me you care about your own selfish fetish and not the carnage our flooded market of 400 million firearms has given us. I am tired of seeing the violence in the news. I am tired of writing these poems. FUCK THE NRA, FUCK THE GUN MAKERS.