Here is the List of Safe Places:

I went about my business today

I may have prayed a bit and thought about 

Those back to back shootings

I may have pushed those tragedies

To the background and

Lived life as usual

Except I found myself in the supermarket

Scanning the crowd

Could I pick out the shooter among us?

I wondered why did Google 

Make those stupid glasses

When what we really need is protection detection

There weren’t any white, male, twenty-somethings

We were a middle-aged crowd with hummus

And sparkling water in our carts

I’m scanning this crowd 

Just a short distance from STEM

But that was in May - sooo long ago

Did I read 215 shootings

In just 250 days?

Yep - we are record setters in the USA

I’m walking to my car

Under a brittle blue sky

Life is fragile enough

Here is the list of dangerous places:

Movie Theaters

Supermarkets

Churches

Synagogues

Yoga Studios

Schools - from elementary to college

Military Bases

Nightclubs

Protests

Ballfields in DC (that didn’t change anything) Inner Cities Playgrounds

Should I stay home more?

Maybe Amazon is the culprit

Inventing ways for us to cloister

Will the NRA have a statement?

Only people write - not pencils

Join today…

Once I had lunch 

With five cops in Chipotle

Was that dangerous?

I thought riding on motorcycles,

Skydiving or bungee-jumping

Would do one in

Nope, just going about your business

Is risky business

Stepping outside is living on the edge 

Maybe tonight after l read the paper
I'll think and pray and pray and think
And wring my hands and cry

Here is the list of safe places: