America is a Gun

 

Here’s a poem for today, September 30, 2024

America Is a Gun

by Brian Bilston

England is a cup of tea. France, a wheel of ripened brie. Greece, a short, squat olive tree. America is a gun.   Brazil is football on the sand. Argentina, Maradona's hand. Germany, an oompah band. America is a gun.   Holland is a wooden shoe. Hungary, a goulash stew. Australia, a kangaroo. America is a gun.   Japan is a thermal spring. Scotland is a highland fling. Oh, better to be anything than America as a gun.   Brian Bilston is the author of You Took the Last Bus Home. Unbound, 2021.    Why I Chose This Poem My family and I spent last summer in Berlin, Germany. Guns are illegal there. Your bicycle might get stolen, but you’ll never, ever get shot. There’s something very comforting about that.  George Bilgere