It’s always Halloween in America somewhere:
some cop is playing hero
some caped crusader just shot a Black kid
the ones at school are waiting for the asshole dressed as Rambo
Somewhere a woman cowers while a wanna-be (coward) Joker sets her life in his sights to set fire to it.

So then, I ask you this:

Why aren’t the rest of us dressed as Captain America,
equipped with SHIELDS instead of weapons?
Why aren’t we strangling the truth out of lassoed lawmakers and lobbyists
–like Gal Godot pretends (for us) she can?
Why are we not armored with benevolence and righteousness–
That we might live to fight another day against sick–NOT “super”–villains?

Where are our shields, that we might protect our lives in the live-action comic-display of sniveling cowardice by those who are comfortable with & profiting from our collective misery?!

We’ll pay Disney to distract us from our own deaths
Instead of train to take action
With the exact same tools
our HULK-y, hunkalicious heroes have?

Give me a shield of Kevlar® instead of a teacher’s body to protect students with!
Better yet–give it to them instead; we already leave our children locked down to defend themselves.

I’LL REPEAT:

(Better yet–give it to them instead. We already leave our children in lockdown: defenseless.)

I’LL REPEAT:

WE ALREADY TEACH OUR CHILDREN LOCKDOWN DRILLS, ACTIVE SHOOTER PROTOCOLS, THE FOLLOWING fucked up “stop drop and roll” for being fired upon instead of for fire drills: RUN, HIDE, FIGHT.

Now, I’LL ADD: Time to change. Three new words: SHIELDS UP: PROTECT!

Give them what Captain America has–until the “captains” of America’s gun industry and body politic are defeated by the Avengers, the Justice League, the superheroes in ALL of us–

–who walk the streets each day (some still in masks).

Well, it’s time to play the game these Halloween horrors, these Jasons and Freddys
have unleashed upon all of us!

Time to take up ARMOR, not arms, my Good Guys, my Wonder Women!
Time to form the FALANX that fights the PHALLUS
Time to train like the “heroes” of old and the ones
playing them in a stream on a screen.
Time to shield ourselves from their Halloween fantasy!
Time to trick them into being treated like the joke that they are.
Time to laugh as their bullets fall uselessly–or better yet–ricochet right back.
Time to remove their ability to assault and attack
By distributing prophylactic protection
to EVERY PERSON these broke dicks
would seek to fuck with their guns,
EVERY CHILD they force a late term abortion on while
screaming about their “right to kill.”

Halloween comes only once a year. But in this country, it’s every day.
No more costumes. No more vigils.
Just shields and an end to the nightmare.
An end to being prey.
Of being told to pray.
When if we just beat them at their own fantasy game–

WE CAN PROTECT OUR KIDS…(if we want to)
–the world can change!

And if you still have ANY doubts, just ask yourself:
What would Jesus do? What would Captain America say?