A Colt revolver showed
The Nineteenth Century’s machinic look
Even Dirty Harry’s Magnum
Displayed a brutal Seventies elegance

Today’s handguns exhibit
All the aesthetic qualities
Of a TV remote face-down
Or a switched-off phone

Say yes to meat to sugar to salty snacks
To drugs you have to ask your doctor for
To the fitness device nobody needs
Replete with video images

See the soldiers in their black armor
Going from house to house
See the public thoroughfare
Site of deadly games in blacked-out cars

See the culture of Death Almighty
Steering brains toward universal death
The little girls dancing in perfect synchrony
The Law to Like the regimented song