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We're taught how to kill with the buttons for the video game

The screen immures us from the pain

Two more people murdered on the news, on the screen

Distances us from the tears, from the void

From the racing thoughts, from the questions with no answers

From it all

Death no longer seems funny

Desensitized, programmed to distance our own emotions

Empathy, compassion from the faces on the screen

Our whole perception of life is shot at us from a fucking violence box

The computer, the Nintendo, the action movie, the news

The blood of my neighbors is on my hands!

As for me I'll choose the pen over the sword any day of the week