I am against violence in schools, any schools, anywhere. We need accountability. We need our politicians to step up. We need our children to be safe. Our future depends on it.
Back in the 60’s kids passed notes, chewed gum and shot different ammo…
An Educational Movie
The projector’s fan hummed.
It was pitch black.
Perfect cover.
Our mission featured onscreen.
We drilled
to assess the site, record our findings;
there would be a test.
The jungle steamed.
Small muscular
tanned
men with piercings and tattoos
emerged.
Noiseless we signaled.
No prisoners.
Straws passed.
We fashioned the ammo from tiny balls
of paper and spit.
Trained our sights
circled wide
closed tight
firing round upon round.
The onslaught
bulls-eyed the movie screen
blanketed the
tan tile
and a brash number of body parts.
The battle won.
The blameless,
in jeopardy.
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Cornelia DeDona
Author, Poet, Photographer, domestic violence survivor, and naturalized immigrant Cornelia is currently an Arts and Letters Member-At-Large of The National League Of American Pen Women.
Cornelia lived in Kaneohe, Hawaii, for thirty-six years. Also, seven years in the Mid-Hudson Valley of New York. She now resides in North Fort Myers, Florida.
Her poems and photography are published in print, online, and Rain Bird, a literary and art journal of the University of Hawaii's Windward Community College (2008-2013).
In 2013, Cornelia received Rain Bird's Kolokolea Poetry Prize for her poem, "Speaking French."
In 2016 her chapbook "Hawaiian Time," entered in the National League of American Pen Women's Vinnie Ream contest, was awarded third place in their inaugural multi-discipline category.
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