Intruder

from Hold Me While I Fall Apart by Whistle Jacket

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Blood on the merry-go-round.
Children sing we all fall down.
But today there is no sound
except echoes of 100 rounds.
Probably counting the days
until Santa and his sleigh.
Gifts never opened,
gifts thrown away.
This December someone else came.
And we know it’s not right
and we wonder why.
Theories but we can agree
that those children shouldn’t have died.
The principal tried to stop
a quiet town’s gunshots.
Parents wait in the parking lot.
Some children come out.
Some do not.
Intruder, intruder, intruder, intruder!
Someone please stop that shooter!
Intruder, intruder, intruder, intruder!
Someone please stop the next shooter!
Tiny desks, tiny chairs.
Alphabet on the wall.
Crayons, puzzles, winter in the air.
Some not even four feet tall.
Some not even four feet tall.

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from Hold Me While I Fall Apart, released December 10, 2013
Noah Bond: drums
Elio DeLuca: piano
Spenser Gralla: bass guitar
Michael Leyden: vocals, guitars

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