Murder
is an acquired habit.
Once killers kill
and get away with it
they will kill again.
Pause what you are doing.
Tremble with emotion.
Assume silence and solemnity.
Now picture the crime
of three seconds.
A man in a government
uniform with a gun
wearing a mask, cursing obscenely
shoots a mother of three children
three times in the face.
Blood gushes.
Flesh quivers.
The woman is dead.
In three seconds
three children are made motherless.
Once the politics of murder
becomes policy
nobody is safe.
In a society divided
between victims and executioners
there are the killers and the Bosses.
There are the corpses.
And the rest of us
hugging the shadows—waiting.
The killing in Minneapolis *
is a warning.
Pause what you are doing. Commit
to memory:
The agent who committed the
murder, recorded his crime.
He screamed at the woman
a gender obscenity immediately after
squeezing the trigger of his weapon.
In three seconds
three children are left motherless.
Murder
(pointedly political murder)
is an acquired habit. Once authorized
(and socially tolerated)
it will be authorized again.
*On the morning of 7 Jan. 2026, Renee Nichole Good, an American citizen, wasmurdered by ICE agent Johathan Ross. She was shot in the face and head three times within the span of three seconds. Renee Good was an award-winning poet and mother ofthree.
David Sparenberg is a humanitarian & eco-poet, international essayist and storyteller. He has published four OVI eBooks in 2025, including the most recent, Eco Woke, andTroubadour& the Earth on Fire. OVI eBooks are Free to download, as contributions to global democracy, literacy and cost-free education. While David Sparenberg lives in he Pacific Northwest, he identities not only as a World Citizen but a Citizen of Creation. Democracy first, Biocracy to follow.
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