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Guns don't kill people,
whack people with guns kill people.

The Pharmaceutical industry doesn't pill people,
people with pills pill people.

Corporate Media and Advertisements don't shill people,
famous people, newscasters, politicians and other actors
shill people.

Frigid temperatures don't chill people,
price-gauging oil companies chill people.

Oil tankers don't spill people,
derelict oil tankers with people driving them
spill oil that kills people.

Banks don't steal from tills,
listen up, people!
banksters who get their thrills ripping off other people
steal from tills, people!

The Antarctic doesn't drill people,
people averse to asking local shamans if it's "ok?"
drill through the ice to test the water.

Agri-businesses don't bill people,
farmers with big bills they can't pay
sometimes commit suicide.

Greedy coal companies don't hill people,
they just blow-off the tops of mountains
and pollute the environment, and i suppose
they make hills but you can't really call them that
because they were once mountains that have been
blown to shit, which is nothing like sitting on a hill
on a sunny day
and having a picnic
with people
you call friends.

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Mankh (Walter E. Harris III) is an essayist and resident poet on Axis of Logic. In addition to his work as a writer, he is a small press publisher and Turtle Islander. He edited and published the book, The (Un)Occupy Movement: Autonomy of Consciousness, Practical Solutions, Human Equality, and hosts an audio show "Between the Lines: listening to literature online." You can contact him via his literary website.

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