{"id":7142,"date":"2014-07-18T09:00:37","date_gmt":"2014-07-18T13:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gadflyonline.com\/home\/?p=7142"},"modified":"2014-07-29T09:22:31","modified_gmt":"2014-07-29T13:22:31","slug":"guns-talk-a-parody-of-little-talks-by-of-monsters-and-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/guns-talk-a-parody-of-little-talks-by-of-monsters-and-men\/","title":{"rendered":"Guns Talk: A Parody of “Little Talks” by Of Monsters and Men"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"GunTalk_585x585\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Hey! Hey! Hey!<\/p>\n

She was just walking down the street,<\/p>\n

and they come blasting, chased by the heat.<\/p>\n

The kid is playing outside while he is asleep,<\/p>\n

and now one is lost with memories left to keep.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

And some days I can\u2019t even watch the news.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s killing me to see the good guys lose.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\u2018Cause guns are not the things of play.<\/p>\n

This weapon claims lives and refuses to go away.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Hey! Hey! Hey!<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

There\u2019s an old place called Jillain\u2019s that calls me back<\/p>\n

House of Dead and Time Crisis puts me on the attack<\/p>\n

Soon I will be blasting them down one by one<\/p>\n

I was used to playing this when I was young<\/p>\n

And I knew then that this was just a game.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Some days I don’t know if people are wrong or right<\/p>\n

Their mind is tricking them, their reality threatening to hold on tight<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\u2018Cause guns are not the things of play.<\/p>\n

This weapon claims lives and refuses to go away.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Hey!<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t listen to what the media has to say.<\/p>\n

Hey!<\/p>\n

Talk to the real people of today.<\/p>\n

Hey!<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\u2018Cause guns are not the things of play.<\/p>\n

This weapon claims lives and refuses to go away.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Hey!<\/p>\n

Hey!<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

They\u2019re gone, gone far away<\/p>\n

We watched them disappear<\/p>\n

All that\u2019s left is the ghost of them<\/p>\n

Now, lives are torn, torn so apart<\/p>\n

There\u2019s nothing that we can do<\/p>\n

Just tell the stories of a world gone mad<\/p>\n

Now, wait, wait for hope<\/p>\n

Please don\u2019t fear<\/p>\n

For the lost is not really gone and close to here.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Hey!<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t listen to what the media has to say.<\/p>\n

Hey!<\/p>\n

Talk to the real people of today.<\/p>\n

Hey!<\/p>\n

\u2018Cause guns are not the things of play.<\/p>\n

This weapon claims lives and refuses to go away.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Hey!<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t listen to what the media has to say.<\/p>\n

Hey!<\/p>\n

Talk to the real people of today.<\/p>\n

Hey!<\/p>\n

\u2018Cause guns are not the things of play.<\/p>\n

This weapon claims lives and refuses to go away.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\u2018Cause guns are not the things of play.<\/p>\n

This weapon claims lives and refuses to go away.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\u2018Cause guns are not the things of play.<\/p>\n

This weapon claims lives and refuses to go away.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

—<\/p>\n

Melissa R. Mendelson is a published short story author and a self-published poet, whose work has been featured in The Outreach for Breast Health Foundation’s Anthology: Beyond Memories, Names in a Jar: A Collection of Poetry by 100 Contemporary American Poets, and Espresso Fiction: A Collection of Flash Fiction for the Average Joe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hey! Hey! Hey! She was just walking down the street, and they come blasting, chased by the heat. The kid is playing outside while he is asleep, and now one is lost with memories left to keep.   And some days I can\u2019t even watch the news. It\u2019s killing me to see the good guys […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":7482,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,214,219,199],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7142"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7142"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7487,"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7142\/revisions\/7487"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}