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I PURCHASED ANOTHER NEW GUN by Joshua Alvarado-Lutfalla

I purchased another new gun

As I draw from my holster and line up the sights in the mirror

My target becomes clearer

The target is me; a prisoner to paranoia is where I stay confidently frozen

Life or death my hands have been chosen

To protect or destroy

I wish it was just a toy gun and I a little boy

All the reasons I feed myself not one will hold up in front of God

Putting wrathful abilities in my hands seems flat out odd

I need to protect myself

But how many previous times has a bullet been bad for my health

A cop wrongfully pulled a gun on Leo

He bought one, and I got two for a forty cal. and 9mm trio

I don’t want to go to jail because some one had road rage

And have some one turn my book of life to the last page

Weather I rot in jail or a casket

Protection, is what I tell myself as I put my bullets in my shopping basket.



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