Re: columbine
m.e. pierce (mepierce@sfasu.edu)
Thu, 22 Apr 1999 13:16:31 -0700
WILL HOCHMAN wrote:
> I live relatively close to this tragedy...it's devastating to think our
> schools are places where children get shot every week,
Everyday when I drop off my son at junior high, I wonder if he will be there
when I return to pick him up. I am all for abandoning guns--but now back to
reality and all the "goddamn, stupid, moron, son-of -a bitch, dirty stupid
moron [s]" in this world (Catcher)--
I think about that kid struggling to post that desperate note in the school
window-- "Help me, I'm bleeding to death. . ." --but pipe bombs kept the
police away until the child had indeed bled to death.
I think about those boys who took off their shirts and covered a dying friend
who said he was cold--how they stayed with him showing him pictures from his
billfold to comfort him--
And all those parents with empty beds--empty arms--
No wonder so many of us retreat to Catcher--no wonder so many of us want to
run away and live as deaf mutes in some cabin in Vermont.
But we know what Holden learns--there is no place to hide. Jump out the
window or Hold-on.
--
M.E. Pierce
Dept. of English, SFASU
http://TITAN.SFASU.EDU/~f_pierceme/
"Are you a nobody too?" --The Belle ofAmherst