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Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
01 Mar 2018
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Is this an AR-15 gun story? Or, a repeating rifle history: Winchester Model 1873, “the gun you could load on Sunday and shoot all week long, “The Gun that Won the West?”

Is this an AR-15 gun story?
Or, a repeating rifle history:
Winchester Model 1873,
“the gun you could load on
Sunday and shoot all week long,
“The Gun that Won the West?”

Since music programs were cut,
ear-training is recognizing semi-
automatic gunfire v. fully automatic.
But children quickly tire of
high velocity, hollow point, hot lead
curriculum and “Good Guy With Gun”
mythology; quickly tire of Open Carry 101;
Stand Your Ground Studies; Bump Stock Basics;
‘Active Shooter’ drills, cafeteria floor camouflage;
quickly tire of capitalist circuses—money jungle
bullshit of political clowns juggling hearts
and prayers; wiping tears with one hand;
with the other, Signing Authorization For
Use of Military Force; pocketing payoffs,
while shooting themselves and condolences
out Wall Street cannons

Schoolchildren are learning—faster
than 30 rounds fired from AR-15s—about bi-
partisan Judases pocketing NRA silver; Learning that
ALL children need shot-free, strafe-free, bomb-free, drone-
free, coup-free schools— schools free from nuclear bullying…

Raymond Nat Turner © 2018 All Rights Reserved

Besides being Black Agenda Report's poet in residence, Raymond Nat Turner is an acclaimed poet and performing artist. Find much more of his work at http://upsurgejazz.com

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