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Gun Control

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“Sir, please keep a closer eye on your

                        gun. It’s frightening

the other customers.”

 

“Sir, I believe

I asked you to watch your gun! People

are feeling threatened by it!”

 

“Sir, your gun is in the child’s

section, and the children are worried.

Please do something about this.”

 

“Sir, store policy is that all guns must be supervised

at all times

by their guardians.”

 

“Sir, I’m afraid

that if you cannot control your gun,

we’re going to have to

ask you to leave.”

 

“Sir, you’ve been warned enough. I’m afraid—

            Oh. Oh. Well, sir. It seems you have

complete control of your gun.

My mistake.

I apologize.

I’ll just be

leaving

now.”

My poetry professor took us on a blindfolded field trip to the library to convince us to use our other senses when we wrote the assignment "Looking at Guernica" ( [link]) was written for, and once there, he had us pull out a random book from the shelves, still blindfolded.

And then he told us to write a poem with the same title.

Other people got some pretty cool titles. What did I get? "Gun Control." I was stumped for a while, because seriously, who wants to write a poem called "Gun Control"? How boring is that?

And then I decided I wasn't really going to write about gun control, and this happened.

Critique-type questions that I would REALLY appreciate if you answered at least one of:
1) Is it funny? Funny is what I was going for.
2) Line breaks. I always want help with line breaks. Do mine work? Can you see better ones?
3) Does this sound like a store employee? Are there better word choices?
4) General suggestions for improvement, did I make any mistakes?
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Birgj's avatar
XD I love this one!!