Teacher: Class, Class listen up. Today’s lesson will be about what has become known as the anti-gun movement in American History.
Teacher: Who can tell me how it began?
Eduardo: It began with guns.
Josephina: Not just guns. Guns and drugs, Maestra
Jesus: No es verdad. Uvalde, Senora
Teacher: Yes, yes, pero, Que paso?
Maria: What is a gun, Maestra?
Teacher: I will show you a picture, Maria
And I wish this could be the future – where instead of asking teachers to now carry weapons (which makes no sense to me as a retired teacher) they are teaching history, because there is a future where a child doesn’t know what a gun is… they haven’t had to face one or lose someone or see TV coverage of a shooting. I cross my fingers and find hopefulness in poetry like yours! Thank you!