orgami's Diaryland Diary

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wonder why sometimes

here are three reasons television
is a really negative experience

The little boy who was in that
bus crash that occured awhile ago
up here in Canada was laid to rest
today He died as a result of
his injuries The age old debate
about having children strapped in
with seatbelts gets a going over
again But that boy is never coming
back again

second reason is that today is the
worst mass shooting in the history of
an american school And so close
to the date of the Columbine shooting
also Who knew who would be able
to say "Hey you know what?? I bet
some unstable person will get it
into their head to walk through our
doors and start to fire upon our
students..we should prepare ourselves!"

sandbags?? metal detectors?? armed
gaurds???? who would pay for this??
Oh by the way next years tution goes
up ten thousand dollars for all the
preventative measures Ask the
parents of all those dead kids if
they would have paid the extra

had they known.......and who would
have thought to stay home this week
just because its the anniversary
of that other shooting from before???

okay one other a small kindergartner
girl in Detroit was outside and
in all that wind a flagpole fell or
broke off and came crashing down
and hit her they said some of
the others students got out of the
way but she of course got hit and
was transported to the hospital
where she died

go figure the kids are outside
in the morning before school starts
they go inside the come outside
for recess in the morning and then
go back inside they come outside
for lunch and then go back inside
they come back out for afternoon
recess and go back inside and then
they go home Believe in God all
you want but its as if God said
this little girl is the girl I want
I want this pole to fall when
everyone is outside
NOT when everyone is safe inside
studying NO i will wait until
they are all outside and then i
will push the pole over with my
mighty wind

all of that within half an hour
of television watching

SO i turned it to some other
mush for the mind to watch
gave up on that and came in
here later i am going to work
on my painting that i have been
putting off for ages and ages

this big fat cat just jumped up
on the computer table and is laying
stretched out above my keyboard
and beneath my flat screen
his tail is twitching slowly

oh and i have laundry to do
which i am doing

what a sad day though

now i know what my mother meant
when she used to make us watch
the late night news when Vietnam
was on and she would say things like
"Oh those poor mothers of those boys"
meaning the young soldiers killed
in action and she would cry at
times too She did live through
the second world war and so did my
father and we would see live footage
of action and helicopters and
explosions Just like today

well those kids werent soldiers
they were just kids studying to
become something they werent
hanging out on the corner by choice
politics or rule

bus
flagpole
shooter

and yet in other third world
countries children die unkown
from malnutrition abuse
toxic locales etc

well im going to paint my
painting now
there is nothing i can do

just part of the world
part of Gods world

..O..

5:54 p.m. - 2007-04-16

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