This is the house where Adam lived by Barrie Neller

(after a 1700’s nursery rhyme) This is the house where Adam lived This is the town That surrounds the house where Adam lived This is the school that nurtures the town That surrounds the house where Adam lived This is the rifle he took to the school That nurtures the town that surrounds the house Where Adam lived. These are the magazines that load the rifle He took to the school that nurtures the town That surrounds the house Where Adam lived These are two of the adults He killed with the rifle He took to the school That nurtures the town that surrounds the house Where Adam lived These are the first of the children He killed with the rifle He re-loaded with the magazines he took To the school that nurtures the town That surrounds the house Where Adam lived These are more of the twenty elementary school children and six adults He killed with the long-barrel rifle He re-loaded with the 30-round magazines He took to the school that nurtures the town That surrounds the house Where Adam lived This is the handgun He used to kill himself After killing twenty children And six adults with the rifle and magazines He took to the school That nurtures the town That surrounds the house Where Adam lived These are the parents That mourn the killing of the Twenty children and six adults Who waited a week for the NRA’s solution To arm all the teachers In all of the schools That nurture the towns That surround the houses Where children live.

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