You left behind
Two little children
And a beautiful wife
Had they been shot
By an assassin
It would have been "worth the cost"
In your words
So that we can have the right
To bear arms against each other.
When you said that
You weren't thinking of your family
Or yourself.
The people who died would be other people
Like the children killed in Colorado
The same day as you.
You couldn't stand empathy
As you said "A made up, New Age term"
And so I will not give it to you
As you would have preferred.
The New York Yankees gave you a moment
Of silence
And so did Speaker Johnson
Because you were one of them
A spewer of hatred
Bigotry
And lies.
A rich white man was killed
And the children are forgotten.
Let us look in derision
At the life you led
And mourn the lives that were lost
To guns and demagoguery.
Let us mourn those lives
But not yours.
It is what you would have wanted.
Worth the cost, I'm sure
To someone other than you.
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