Monday, April 16, 2007

What If You Knew Her And...

I don't even know how to comment on the Virginia shootings... It's just that feeling, you know, of "what the fuck am I doing sitting here? kids are dying, man, kids are dying and I can't do a God damned thing." It's that feeling of powerlessness. Ohio by CSNY keeps running through my head, and I want to immortalize them in a poem, in a song, in something. But my creative juices have felt dry for so long. It reminds me of that amazing poem 110 Stories, about 9/11, and little snippets of news and things keeps running though my head, and I don't know why, but the one thing that keeps looping over and over and over is the one line, "they're saying the shooter killed himself." I want more information, I want to know what was wrong with him, because I don't want to hate him for what he did. The methodical... my God, I was always so thankful that no one had ever done it... like that... but then he did. And I keep telling myself, "my God, we have to do something"... But what can I do? What can we do?

2 comments:

pedersencato said...

I know what you mean. Also, I would have posted this earlier but anyways, Jack Thompson immediately blamed the attack on videogames, before anybody had any idea who the shooter was... man he needs to be disbarred. Also:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/1816977

That's just scary.

pedersencato said...

ah good, Dr. Phil is saying the same thing... It MUST be right...

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070418-media-looks-for-nonexisting-link-to-gaming-in-vt-massacre.html