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Bangbang Apple Pie

Michael Merriam

911. What is your emergency?

Bangbang apple pie.
Bangbang they gotta die.
Bangbang shoot’em all.
Bangbang America.

Black skin - brown skin - anything but white man skin and bangbang.

Cops man, you gotta treat’em like a live hand grenade with the pin pulled. Might go off any moment.
Kill you - kill everyone around you – kill everything you love - kill the world –
and never be held accountable or responsible because they are infallible -
because the blue wall, baby - because they will shoot you dead and say,
“He was a threat - She was resisting - I was scared.
Fuck, I was bored and they were probably thugs anyway.”

Bangbang

And all the videos and outrage and evidence? That shit doesn’t matter. Unarmed? Back turned?
On the ground? Handcuffed? Bangbang and juries just shrug and say,
“Not guilty” go home to their American flags - picket fences – SUVs – bring in the dog,
put out the cat, dispose of the leftover meatloaf, have another piece of apple pie,
God bless America.

Black? Bangbang.
Brown? Bangbang.
Native? Bangbang.
Asian? Bangbang.
Muslim? Sikh? Probably a terrorist.
Bangbang.

Now white man, white man can hold a gun in his hand, screaming profanities
and fifteen cops will force a stand-off - talk him down - maybe taz him if they just gotta
but that’s a damned shame and they might have – probably were -
treading on that patriot’s rights, because he is obviously a bald-eagle loving
son of John Wayne and George Washington who believes in freedom and America and apple pie,
hoo-ra!

You can tell the white man is a son of liberty by the American – or maybe Confederate – flag
flying in the back window of his truck and all the freedom defending semi-automatic rifles he owns.
Wave their flags - wave their guns - wave their penis’ of American patriotic breeding of liberty apple pie, baby!

Black man – well, black man can have a carry permit, tell the cop he has a gun somewhere in the car,
not have the gun anywhere in sight and – Bangbang bangbang bangbang bang.
But white man holding a gun? Clearly not a threat.

Well, unless he’s obviously mental ill.
Then bangbang.
Or disabled.
Bangbang.
I mean fuck, they’re just useless broken cripples and a drain on society’s
resources and sucking up the tax dollars of good hard working Americans, right?

Lesbian? Gay? Bi? Trans? Queer?
Asexual? Pansexual?
Baby Jesus says Bangbang.

Oh and women. Especially women of color, women who are mental ill,
women who dared to walk outside wearing a burka or miniskirt or a pair of jeans and modest blouse –
bangbang - because after all, they are just dirty dirty wimmins with their dirty dirty wimmin’s parts.
Shoot’em all. Bangbang
Homeless vets, disabled vets, vets with PTSD –
fuck they should have come back whole like John Wayne or
died like American patriots of freedom on the battlefield, smoking M-16 in their hands,
surrounded by a thousand dead bodies of America’s enemies. Bangbang.

Family Pet? Bangbang and double bonus points extra big slice of apple pie ala mode
if you gun that pet down in front of the family,
hoo-ra!

Black bodies – brown bodies –
broken bodies queer bodies -
women’s bodies –
Bangbang,
the bodies hit the floor, the pavement, the ground, the grave.

And sure, you can gather, protest, carry a sign, sing, chant, link arms, stop traffic,
We Shall Overcome Kumbaya!

But the moment one cop decides he’s afraid, the whole riot gear wearing,
armored car driving, jack-booted phalanx can just draw weapons and bangbangbang because
you are threat to their safety–to the rich man’s safety–to order and justice and the American way of life.

God Bless America. What did you do to get yourself shot today?

Did you fail to instantly comply with four conflicting orders screamed at you while guns were waved in your face?
Did you drive while black? Did you step outside your home while mentally ill?
Did you take your disabled body out where good God-fearing Americans had to actually see you?
Did you love a person with a different skin color from you or the same genitalia as you?
Did you not believe in God, Baby Jesus, and the American Way?

Is that why the cops had to shoot you?

Remember, you deserved to be shot you criminal you thug you gimp you druggie
you commie Nazi hippie liberal socialist fascist democrat welfare-queen
who probably eats bald eagles in a satanic caricature of Thanksgiving.

The cops had to shoot you and the cops are not guilty of any crime.
The cops are not even guilty of just poor fucking judgment. They are never guilty.
They are never guilty because they are America and America cannot be guilty.
America the Beautiful is beautiful - as long as you are white – male – healthy -
wealthy - wave your flag - wave your gun - wave your penis ramrod straight copulate –
but only in the Baby Jesus approved missionary position and only for the express purpose
of breeding more white male able-bodied American patriots to defend truth, justice, and the apple pie.

Black? Brown? Native?
Asian? Muslim? Sikh?
Jew? Hindu? Pagan?
Atheist? Mentally ill?
Disabled? Autistic?
Lesbian? Gay? Bi?
Trans? Queer?
Asexual? Pansexual?
Woman? Homeless?
Poor? Pet?
Just a little too slow to react?

Bangbang America.
Bangbang shoot’em all.
Bangbang they gotta die.
Bangbang apple pie.
Bang.
Bang.

911. What is your emergency?

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