"The Wasteland" was prophetic. April is

Indeed quite cruel. The lilacs from the dead

Ground mourn the helpless children?s senseless deaths.

Six years ago in Waco, seventeen,

And now in Colorado, twelve. And just

As T.S. Eliot turned metaphors

Of Spring upon their head, so April has

Inverted what we know as just and good.

Trenchcoated thugs disdaining law and life

Behave like those before in Waco who

Claimed law was on their side. The children?s young

Blood soaks the earth and stains our souls. May God

Have mercy on this sick and lawless land.

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