BREAKING NEWS
This Is Us
Death smothers the classroom curriculum now
19 students 2 teachers — “Deadliest in nearly a decade.”
Say the name — Uvalde; Southwest Texas; Everytown, USA — And try, this time, to remember their faces.
Children — just babies, really — crawling through windows to escape.
Hiding in a nearby funeral home? Yes.
Our President, wrecked by the news — reading from the Teleprompter, safe in his Big White House —
Juxtaposed with stark B Roll of Terrified 10-year-olds.
Fodder for the gunman Becomes Fodder for the Evening News.
Please, America, “turn this pain into action.”
So kids can grow up — and goof off with their teachers
Instead of cowering, bleeding, dying, in classrooms ringed with pretty pictures.
Pronounced and prolonged Anguish should never be part of the curriculum.