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Volume 26 - Number 1 - Fall 2019,
Pages: 1 - 123
Section: SCHOOL SHOOTINGS
Petschauer, P. W. (2019). Killing us [Poem]. Clio’s Psyche, 26(1), 95-96. https://doi.org/10.70763/c57168a952f5d46724cf35dfc3d48a7f
Killing Us (poem)
Keywords: deep emotions, killing, mass destruction, poem, propaganda, psychohistory
They kill with deeply felt emotion:
Fellow human beings are their targets.
Carefully planned attacks:
Weapons meant for war,
and perfect spots for murder.
Schools, churches, theatres, shopping malls –
suited best to execute their prey.
Nefarious wordsmiths updating content:
Ideologies created for earlier times.
Mesmerized followers on TV, in the Internet, and
men holding instruments of mass destruction.
The Second Amendment:
Lauded, derided, and misinterpreted –
our world of all or nothing.
Conservatives versus liberals,
small towns versus big cities, and
red versus blue.
Strident voices rise to a national cacophony and
block action that could stop the slaughter.
Page 95
Authors:
Peter W. Petschauer
Peter W. Petschauer, PhD, New York University, taught at Appalachian State University, 1968-2006. (Now a writer and poet.) Initially courses in European and Russian History, later women and children.
Several administrative positions.
Also chair of Appalachian’s faculty senate and then chair of UNC-System’s faculty assembly.
Now on two arts-related boards at ASU and on two boards of psychohistorical journals.
Books: Faustina. Ein freies Mädchen und eine gefangene Fürstin. Das einzigartige Paar auf dem Römerhof bei Erlstätt (Faustina. A free girl and a captive duchess. The unique pair on the Roman farm near Erlstätt), 2025;Was man so Alles lernt, (All the Things one Learns) 2024; In Troubled Times Beauty. Listen to Rarely Heard Voices (poetry), 2022; An Immigrant in the 1960s. Finding Hope and Success in New York City; Hopes and Fears. Past and Present (poetry); A Perfect Portrait, about a young female artist in 18th-century Weimar; In the Face of Evil. The Sustenance of Traditions; The Father and the SS.
Articles, etc.: over 250 articles in journals and collections, several hundred presentations/ lectures.
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Petschauer, P. W. (2019). Killing us [Poem]. Clio’s Psyche, 26(1), 95-96. https://doi.org/10.70763/c57168a952f5d46724cf35dfc3d48a7fPDF downloads:
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