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Alan L Boles
4 min readNov 15, 2019

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A Bullet Without A Brain

I am an Inanimate Object, A Bullet Without Brain.

In, of and by myself.

I can do no harm.

However once I am inserted.

Into a clip or a chamber of a weapon.

And a finger is placed upon the trigger of the Weapon,

I was placed in and it is pulled.

Then everything changes.

I can tear and destroy flesh.

I can break and shatter bones.

I can damage property.

I can ruin lives.

I can destroy families.

I can end lives.

I can not do it alone.

I do not have a brain.

I do not know what it is to care.

I have no feelings.

I can only do that for which I was created.

I was created to do all of the above.

I was created to end life, as we know it.

However, I can be controlled.

You can restrict the people who can have me.

You can restrict the people who can buy and

sell the weapons, that I can be inserted into.

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Alan L Boles
Alan L Boles

Written by Alan L Boles

In 1972 a Professor in Creative Writing encouraged me to write, thirty years later I began relearning the English grammar. I manage Poetry Groups on Facebook.

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