Lawrence M Lesser
Stochastic Terrorism
by Dr. Lawrence M. Lesser,
reprinted from January 2020 Journal of Humanistic Mathematics
Some maintain hate
Speech doesn’t cause
Violence, that
Casualties aren’t
Causal-ties
‘Cause we can’t
Predict the
People:
Yet another othering
When words trigger
Someone past the post hoc
Point of madness.
This “random” violence isn’t:
Did the shooter flick
A spinner to choose
His aim?