The Gun Permit
Los Angeles Times readers submitted their views in verse for a feature dedicated to opinion poetry.
(Anthony Russo / For The Times )
I walk away from the gun shop
with only the trigger —
the gun left behind,
on the floor,
kicked under the counter,
without a bang.
The eyelash of the weapon
rests in my pocket,
like my tongue,
waiting in my mouth,
for a more articulate way
to defend the more productive
of my constitutional rights.
The author is an artist, poet and novelist living in Brooklyn. davidcolosi.com
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