This poem is republished from the American Poetry Review. The poem's title comes from a tagline in 1960s commercials for toy weapons made by U.S. manufacturer Mattel. It was filmed in the toy weapon aisle of Target in Mission, Kansas.

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Peter Mishler is the author of FLUDDE (Sarabande Books). Poems from a second collection appear in American Poetry Review and Granta. He is a contributing editor for Literary Hub.