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SymptomX — Bang, Bang, Guns Go Bang
Published: 2006-01-15 07:31:36 +0000 UTC; Views: 508; Favourites: 5; Downloads: 4
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Description Dear Die-ary
There's going to be a lot of blood today.
Things are going to be different.
Today will start off the same,
They'll tease
     They'll taunt
          They'll say their hurtful words
And I'll bite my lip
Until I taste blood in my mouth
Because it will be better than letting them see me cry,
Better than giving them another stone to throw.
Today, though, things are going to change.
We'll show them all.
It will be like David and Goliath
Only better.
We'll be the ones throwing stones.
We'll show them all
     Make up for all the pain
          All the hurt
That they caused us.
We'll show them all.
Today everything will change.

Today started off exactly the same.
I woke up at the same time
     Hugged my mom and went to school
          Slept though my first class
And halfway though the second.
Walked the halls with my friends
And everything was the same
Except today I didn't see the freaks.
     The ones with the dark hair
          and the black clothes.
The creepy ones.
It doesn't surprise me though
And I don't really care.
It just means today will be boring.
There will be no one to push into lockers
     Or throw shit at in the hall
          Or make fun of with the guys.
Today's going to be boring.
Other than that, everything's the same.

We met up outside the front door.
He had his stones
In the form of an automatic rifle
Illegally bought
(But who the fuck cares?)
And the pipe bombs we made last week.
I had mine,
A shotgun and two dozen or so homemade grenades.
We both had our lists
And enough ammo
For every single motherfucker on them
Fourteen times over.
Today we were going to change things.
Today, we'd make them pay.
When the lunch bell rang
We made sure the halls were clear
And then we were inside.
They never even saw us coming.

Lunch bell rings
And it's an hour of freedom.
No more monotony of classes
     No more learning things I don't care about
          No more trying to stay awake and take notes.
We went to the cafeteria
Sat at the usual table
Ate the usual gross, greasy fries.
I didn't even see them coming.

Bang.
Less one bullet
Into the heart of what's-her-name
And she's down
     Gone away.
          Dead like me.
So much for Lauren Townsend.
Bangbang.
Maybe two more for good measure.

I didn't think of doing the smart thing
When I heard the first one.
Bang
NO one thought much
Except, maybe, "Why is the hall full of gunfire?"
If I called the police right then...
Bangbang
All anyone can do is ask
"Why?"
That's when they came
And everyone all thought, "Run."

Yeah, you better run
As I come in here with my big gun.
Payback time.
I bled because of you
     I died because of you
Now i'm killing you
     For being mean,
          For being cruel,
               For being selfish
And thinking only of yourselves.
Bang.
And you all run.
That's your choice,
Run or die.
Run and die.
Bang
I had no choice when you shot me down with words.

I don't see him anywhere
But he said something about the library.
Bang.
Another one D
                  O
                  W
                  N
And all I see is red.

All I see is red
And someone else is D
                              O
                              W
                              N
There's so much loud
All the screaming and crying
And bang
There goes another one.
I don't know what I did
     Or what the others did
          Or why that freak is doing this
But I need to find my friends
And I need to get the fuck out of here,
Hopefully, alive.

Another one gone down
And all of a sudden, there's no one left
But the ones on the floor.
I don't know how long it's been.
     Time
               has
                        Sl o   w      e       d
And it's like everything's stopped.
We did it.
     We pulled it off.
          We killed them for killing us
And he's beside me now.
It's time for the final part of the plan.
Yeah, we taught them a lesson
And, yeah, I feel a little better
But it doesn't make up for all the pain
     And all the torment
That they put me through.
So now, with one more look around
At this hell called high school,
One more look at the one person
Who understood because it happened to him too
Bang, bang,
Guns go bang

One
     More
          Time.
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Comments: 5

RFZT [2008-09-06 06:45:41 +0000 UTC]

I LOVE THIS POEM.

It completely sings out the feelings of people on both sides. Usually it just focuses on either the shooters or the victims. But you combined the two, and pulled it off very well.

The thoughts of the shooter and the random cool kid meld together nicely; you showed how their lives were drastically different right from the start, where one wrote in his Die-ary and the other had a normal boring day at school. And so on, and I can totally get into the rest of the poem. It rocks, it's so full of concept. Concept is my favorite part of Columbine works.

I have to admit though, I winced at the first BANG paragraph. What's-her-name. So much for Lauren Townsend. Ouch.

But I loved the passage about run-or-die, run-and-die, it's your choice. You didn't give me a choice. I love that. It's so powerful.

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SymptomX In reply to RFZT [2008-09-08 04:21:22 +0000 UTC]

Thank you so much! I can understand the point about the Lauren Townsend line, but if you do look at it from the shooter's point of view the lack of emotion makes a lot of sense.

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RFZT In reply to SymptomX [2008-09-10 02:11:54 +0000 UTC]

You're welcome. This was a big thing to me; I was young when it happened, but as I grew older I realized what it really was, and sadly, I know a lot about it now.

Oh! I wasn't saying you weren't being sensitive about Lauren. I did understand fully that it lacked emotion because it was from the shooter's point of view. It just made me wince. Oh, yeah, and the "two more" line...that was accurate because she was shot multiple times randomly, although she was killed by the first.

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Lanthanaas [2006-01-18 00:54:12 +0000 UTC]

Wow... It's big... And very well done! Great job!

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Danglingcarrots [2006-01-15 19:33:28 +0000 UTC]

I effing heart this poem.

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