Gun Battles: 2018

“‘In the name of freedom, Christmas, and mom,/give every man a nuclear bomb,’/said Kip from a stump—’One man, one nuke!’/Kip still regrets not killing more gooks,/and he’s still ‘gun-ho’ as his friends used to say/behind the bulwarks of Cam Ranh Bay.”—Skip Eisiminger

Skip the B.S.

By Skip Eisiminger

CLEMSON South Carolina—(Weekly Hubris)—May 2018—

Gun Battles: 2018
By Skip Eisiminger

“In the name of freedom, Christmas, and mom,
give every man a nuclear bomb,”

 said Kip from a stump—“One man, one nuke!”
Kip still regrets not killing more gooks,

and he’s still “gun-ho” as his friends used to say
behind the bulwarks of Cam Ranh Bay.

Now, Kip has bought a semi-automatic
to make his range calls more polychromatic.

To Kip, his AK-47
is all his cortex needs for a leaven.

His yard used to have too many squirrels
and an infestation of boys and girls

until he discharged a massive clip
overhead, in the dirt, and into his hip.

Whatever he hits, he ordains as prey
whether a black bear or just a blue jay.

Once, a Teflon slug went clean through a buck,
a Douglass fir, and his pickup truck,

but when the “Deep State” comes for his gun,
before they take him, Kip wants some fun.

Said Kip from a crouch behind bullet-proof glass,
“You can stick gun-control right up your ass!”

Note: Read more about sculptor Michael Murphy’s installation, “Gun Country,” here.

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