A sestina poem inspired by a recent news article.

Image Credit: Jeffrey Hamilton Don't feel like reading? Listen instead 🎧 As a child of the 1990s, I’ve lived long enough to remotely bear witness to dozens of mass shootings — hours of footage featuring terrified school children, worshippers, shoppers, massage therapists, theater-goers — it seems everyone is a target here, or at least in danger of becoming one, but it wasn’t until 2022 — until Uvalde, and the resulting lack of legislative action from politicians — that I rea