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Bad Hombres— didn’t Boss Tweet warn US?
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
14 Jun 2023
Bad Hombres— didn’t Boss Tweet warn US?

                                                                                              Bad Hombres—

                                                                                    didn’t Boss Tweet warn US?

                                                                  “Those who are too smart to engage in politics are

                                                               punished by being governed by those who are dumber.” 

                                                                                                     —Plato

Follow the orange wrecking ball, warning
of Bad Hombres…
Rapists, robbers, murderers, gangsters—
Grifters—the worst of the worst breaching borders!

Follow the orange wrecking ball, warning
of Bad Hombres…
and a predator’s promise to “drain the swamp—”
and a parasite’s plan to “Make Amerikkka grate again!”

Follow the orange wrecking ball: Maria’s aftermath
paper towel-tossing talk of ‘selling’ Puerto Rico—Or swapping
it for Greenland! Mengele Medicine, pandemic pressers, Killing
maybe a million? Thrill-killing 13 on Death Row—Its way out…

Follow the orange wrecking ball: low Barr-last days of Pompeo.
Assorted co-conspirator grifter generals, pandemic profiteers, thug
lawyers licensed to steal! Line pockets—loot anything not nailed
down—Especially drunken 9/11 hustler, Count Ghouliani!

Follow the orange wrecking ball. Bear witness for mirrors! War
On Bad Hombres-winning .99 cent store solution! Mirrors! See
Mirrors out perform motion detectors, border walls, razor wire,
ICE agents and ten gallon-hatted, horseback Texas Rangers…

Follow the orange wrecking ball. It leads to invisible yellow tape
wrapping the War House. Leads to bellicose Ol’ Schmo. To judge,
jury, executioner Drone Ranger. War-juggling W; Bosnia-bombing
Slick Willy; And wily,100 year-old, war criminal accomplice… still at large…

© 2023. Raymond Nat Turner, The Town Crier. All Rights Reserved.

Raymond Nat Turner is a NYC poet; BAR's Poet-in-Residence; and founder/co-leader of the jazz-poetry ensemble UpSurge!NYC. You can Vote for his work at: GoFundMe and PayPal.

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