Mexican poetry

The Epidemic of Shrink-Ray-Gun Violence Plaguing Our Schools Must End By Pedro Iniguez This poem originally appeared in Star*Line #45.3, 2022   Their atoms dust the floors of every school in the country; those frightened children we can no longer console.   Their cries have faded into inaudible wavelengths inside a quantum world where hugs and spacetime both cease to exist.   They have dissolved into mere fractions of their corporeal selves, their particles swept into dustpans and mopped into oblivion.   Blame those new blasters inundating the market, stowed inside scores of scruffy backpacks; the preferred choice of disgruntled…