"A poem cannot stop a bullet. A novel can't defuse a bomb. But we are not helpless. We can sing the truth and name the liars." S. Rushdie

Pendulum considers us foolish and selfish to keep going the way we are with guns in the US.

My Dad served in the Army and was in Vietnam. I have a handful of war poems, not all of them published. This one only appears here.

I was inspired by a Jimmy Kimmel monologue. Share this with any "leader" you think needs to read it.