Analysis of EL PASO 2019

RICHARD K PATE 1957 (New Jersey)



Out in the west Texas town of El Paso
High desert country, a land I adore
A bad man from Dallas arrived uninvited
And left far too many dead on the floor

Convinced The Great Replacement Theory was true
(with all its zany false lore)
He drove through the night, to old El Paso
To kill Mexicans and even the score.

It was hot that day at El Paso’s WALMART, on Gateway West Blvd,
near the Cielo Vista Mall.
After the long drive the shooter had a bite
And reconned some of his victims soon doomed to fall

Later recounted, folks thought he’d driven on
After his meal at McDonald’s that day
Instead, he went back to his car
Geared up with plenty of ammo and got his AK

He started his spree outside in the lot
Juan y Nicholosa Velasquez were the first on his list
When he shot them, still in their car
Unknowing, they had just shared their last kiss

Out thru the back door of WALMART they ran
To escape the 7.62 mm lethal bees
Some escaped but most died
Pleading and bleeding, down on their knees

Leonardo Campos, Raul Flores, Aldolpho Cerros Hernandes with wife Sarita
died in the store
They were not able to reach safety
They perished, along with so many more.

Teresa Sanches, at 82, was there with her girlfriends
But they were all shot
While shopping the sales Rosa and Rosemary survived, Teresa did not.

Lazaro Ponce, a heroic homeless man,
Without hesitation, rushed into the store
In spite of the AK still spitting out rounds
He saved three and treated many more

While the Army’s Glendon Oakley
Helped the kids next door
Adria Gonzales and Gilbert Serna led many to safety then went back for more.

When it was all over the killer
Calmly walked out the door,
As he surveyed his handiwork,
The many bloody bodies, strewn willy-nilly on the floor.

Then he got back in his car
And drove a few more blocks
And surrendered to police saying,
“I am the shooter,” you must put me in the stocks.

Ninety life sentences he received
For his deplorable actions that day
He destroyed many innocent lives
So in prison he will stay

But don’t worry, it’s all over now, I wish that I could say
But the indoctrination he received online
Is still widely broadcasting today

That ensures that this isn’t the end
With yet more precious lives we must pay,
Until we stand up, what we witnessed in El Paso
Will soon occur, every single day.


Scheme ABCB XBAB XDXD XEFG HXFX IJXJ CBKB XHH IBXB KBB XBGB FLGL XEXE EXE XEAE
Poetic Form
Metre 10011011110 1101001101 01111001010 0111101101 01010101011 1111011 1110111110 1110001001 11111111111110 101101 10011010101 01111101111 10010111101 1011101011 01111111 11110110111 1101111001 111010001111 11111011 0101111111 110111111 10101101 101111 100101111 01010111110111 1001 101101110 1100111101 01010111101 11011 11001100100101011 010100010101 0101010101 0110111011 111010101 1011010 10111 1000100101011011011111 111110010 101101 1101110 010101011010101 1111011 010111 001010110 110101111001 101100101 1101001011 101101001 1010111 111011101111111 1000101011 11101001 10111101 111101111 0111111100110 1101100101
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 2,360
Words 467
Sentences 9
Stanzas 15
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 3, 4, 3, 4, 4, 4, 3, 4
Lines Amount 57
Letters per line (avg) 32
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 122
Words per stanza (avg) 29

About this poem

MASS SHOOTING PROTEST POEM, inspired by the famous Marty Robbins song including borrowing some lines.

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Written on September 10, 2023

Submitted by rkparc on September 15, 2023

2:20 min read
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RICHARD K PATE

Making a living as a small town architect, I also enjoy playing drums in a rock band, writing poetry and prose and painting and drawings. more…

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