Poetry

Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Ladee Blu: Another Monroe Doctrine delivery system
09 Jun 2021
Raytheon’s craven raven Co-signing for mass murder: “Mowing the grass…” Now… Ladee Blu on a fool’s errand dis- seminating The Monroe Doctrine—this is what
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
MOVE Tulsa to Gaza…
02 Jun 2021
The Mass Shooting Of The Day— this time was in San Jose… Do you know the way to San Jose?
Raymond Nat Turner , BAR poet-in-residence
Preachin’ to the Choir (for Joe, Linda, Tim…)
26 May 2021
2020’s hindsight—frost in the rearview mirror. Miles Ahead… I’m Sheltered in Solidarity with National Poetry Month and Jazz Appreciation Month— April in Boston—warm cider
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Herd impunity?
19 May 2021
What if a colonial settler state accidentally vaccinated 61% of its population With a virulent variant of a vicious virus?
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
The acrobats are back…(gimme a bleepin’ break!)
12 May 2021
The acrobats are back—riding bareback and backwards on Donkeys! They’re back juggling hocus-pocus focus groups; Back, spinning Wall Street straw into fools’ gold for the war-
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Justice was served from Warfare States’ gaslit woks
29 Apr 2021
Justice was served sweet and sour in pepper spray soup—tear- gas gumbo—tears mixed with milk and milk of magnesia in crimson curry sauce; Served from warfare states’ woks on
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Trauma Trivia
21 Apr 2021
We play America’s longest running game, Trauma Trivia—gambling blue— Daily, weekly, monthly, annually—decades, Centuries at a time…We play it again and
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Reese Piece…
15 Apr 2021
Salute to City of Angels’ son! He wrote, he wrote, he wrote And he wrote… Ramparts, The Progressive, The Nation, Mother Jones, Dateline Havana, 48 hills…
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Testi-lyin’
07 Apr 2021
Northeast, midwest, southwest, south, down south, up south, out south—south of the Canadian border—Slouched down in his cruiser, slow-rollin’ the ‘hood; Or a-
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
PIMP: Paper In Militarists’ Pockets (Business as usual…)
24 Mar 2021
$13 billion aircraft carriers, $10 pencils and $500 hammers, renamed “portable hand-held transcribing devices” and “impact fasteners;” so war-profiteer pimps—war