• Market Rate

    What’s the market rate of a life?
    Well if Israel spends 220 million dollars a day
    To sow the gaza strip with Palestinian bits
    At least two hundred fifty of them daily
    Then a life is probably somewhere south of
    800,000 dollars

    Not really in my budget

    What’s the market rate of a life?
    Well if a box of Sig Sauer Elite 40 Cal is 23.99
    With 20 rounds in a box
    And four Glock 22s dump
    32 shots at Breonna Taylor while she sleeps
    Then a life is probably closer to
    One thousand six hundred forty one dollars
    And sixty cents
    Six hundred for each Glock
    And a dollar thirty for each bullet
    A lot cheaper if you only count the ones that hit her

    But still out my price range

    What’s the market rate of a life?
    Well if a box of Federal HST is 31.99
    With 20 rounds in a box
    And I use one round to speckle
    splatter bits of gray matter onto the white walls of my studio
    Then my life is probably somewhere around
    Eight hundred one dollars
    and fifty nine cents
    A dollar fifty nine for the bullet
    Three hunnid for a dirty Glock 17
    And nine hunnid
    for the security deposit
    on my apartment

    Not bad. A bargain Glock, really. But on top my student loans?

    What’s the market rate of a life?
    Well if Aaron Bushnell yells Free Palestine
    On a twitch stream
    Through a phone screen
    That AT&T gave me for free cause I had a trade in
    All the while fire resistant OCPs
    Warp and wrap black, orange, and yellow
    From a dollars worth of gas
    And a ninety nine cent lighter

    I think I’ve finally found a bargain

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    Warning: Graphic
    Happy Birthday Aaron

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