Katya Bitar’s poem No Guns on Streets, Part II appeared here in June 2014.

No Guns on Streets, Part II
By Katya Bitar

There are no
guns on streets,
they are in police officers’ pockets,
we are told
to trust them

There are no
guns on streets,
they are in Wal-Mart,
being sold
to the eager hand

There are no
guns on streets,
we live in some sort of peace,
we get the privilege
to not see our government slaughter

There are no
guns on streets,
they are in
another country
we are trying
to fix,
that
is what they tell us