by Dan Campion

“Musket Balls Found in Massachusetts Recall ‘Shot Heard Round the World’”
—The New York Times

Thoreau, and others, missed a few
Spent rounds that had lain by
The old North Bridge? What else is new?
So many bullets fly
Throughout this country, where our guns
Are sacrosanct, lead shot
Turned up in Concord scarcely stuns.
We’d wonder had it not.