We need a “mass shooter taxonomy:”
(A classification of this thing
Ubiquitous in our economy)
Here I will try to begin it naming
1st they’re mostly elaborate suicides
These people kill when they want to die
If they survive they wanted to choose sides
To some fantasy identity ply
2nd they are the voiceless’s message
When their tweets, posts, memes & screeds are ignored
They feel they need a murderous dressage
To break through all the ennui of the bored
3rd, & more specific’lly they want
To say something about some injustice
(Whether real or imagined) they flaunt
Murderously, their social caprice
Some are simpleton racists who despise
Blacks, Latinos, Asians & others more
Than they enjoy all of living’s supplies
(They create a fantasy of race war)
I need to quickly add explanations
Of the commercially motivated
& the Bigger Thomas iterations
Not many, but difference is noted
Not a few of them choose to blame women
Certainly a form of misogyny
Thinking that life relationships owes them
(This alienation is unholy)
This is all toxic masculinity
Where we men blame the sexual obverse
(Oft’ “performative femininity”
Women’s social incentives perverse)
I should have started with the bullying
That we think begins with one tyrant
(Truthfully we’re all participating
“‘Favorites’ is a form of violence”)
Let me circle back to the suicides
(That are to me incomprehensible
Mental Health sometimes sanity elides
A predictable reaction awful)
Today’s society’s expecting
Or demanding too much of human souls
People think they should be fame producing
Simulacrum of Humanity’s goals
