A shooting rampage.
A demonic gunman.
The
new Batman movie.
A
massacre inside the movie theater.
People
killed.
People
injured.
We
live in a country that promotes violence.
What
kind of people are we becoming?
Families
grieving.
A
stunned nation.
Violence
in America.
© 2012 Catherine
Giordano
Usually
the poems go on http://newsprintpoetry2012.blogspot.com,
but today I did a bonus poem. I decided
to post it on this blog because I wanted to do an extensive comment.
(There's another poem about the Colorado shootings at http://newsprintpoetry2012.blogspot.com/2012/07/terror-unfolds-in-colorado.html )
One of the things I like about my daily poems based on newspaper stories, is giving my opinion on the topic of the story or poem. Today, I was caught up by these words in the story: “We live in a country that promotes violence. What kind of people are we becoming?
I’ve heard that “The Dark Knight Rises” is an excessively violent movie. Our culture celebrates violence—movies, video-games, World Wide Wrestling, and so on.
It’s vicarious violence. Nobody really gets hurt, right? Right, until they do. If we are suffused with violence, especially young people, eventually that violence is going to seep out into reality.
Don’t buy into the violence culture. We literally buy into it when we spend our money on it. If we want to stop the violence, it will take an act of collective will.
(There's another poem about the Colorado shootings at http://newsprintpoetry2012.blogspot.com/2012/07/terror-unfolds-in-colorado.html )
One of the things I like about my daily poems based on newspaper stories, is giving my opinion on the topic of the story or poem. Today, I was caught up by these words in the story: “We live in a country that promotes violence. What kind of people are we becoming?
I’ve heard that “The Dark Knight Rises” is an excessively violent movie. Our culture celebrates violence—movies, video-games, World Wide Wrestling, and so on.
It’s vicarious violence. Nobody really gets hurt, right? Right, until they do. If we are suffused with violence, especially young people, eventually that violence is going to seep out into reality.
Don’t buy into the violence culture. We literally buy into it when we spend our money on it. If we want to stop the violence, it will take an act of collective will.
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