Emergency Alert

by Mike Turner / May 28th, 2023

Emergency Alert!

Bad actors
are breaching
our perimeter!

They’re armed!
Dangerous!
They’re killing
innocent Americans!

We must
Act
to protect our citizens!

Oh
Wait
It’s not immigrants at the border
It’s an active shooter
At an elementary school

No action
is required
Our guns
are more important

Thoughts
and prayers
though…

Mike Turner, a poet/songwriter living on the U.S. Gulf Coast, was named 2025 Poet of the Year by the Alabama State Poetry Society. His poems have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including Dissident Voice; his lyric, “Sense of Peace,” was awarded the Alabama Writers’ Cooperative’s 2023 Roger Williams Peace Award for Writing. He can be contacted at www.MikeTurnerSongwriter.com. Read other articles by Mike.

This article was posted on Sunday, May 28th, 2023 at 8:02am and is filed under Poetry.