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Boss Tweet’s Blitzkrieg 
BAR Poet-in-Residence Raymond Nat Turner
04 Dec 2019
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Boss Tweet’s Blitzkrieg 
Boss Tweet’s Blitzkrieg 

I wake in a cold sweat,
scrambling for the internet—
What salvoes were let loose
while we slept? 
How badly
Bombed is the safety net?
What rights are left?
What damage has the daily dose of         
             shock and awe—Blitzkrieg—done?
Is blitzkrieg 140 character shtik
Boss Tweet cleverly crafts; swift
installation of fascist framework, no ALEC
edicts, just narcissist’s signature required?                                                                   
Is it only the offal office 
oozing orange pus—
Or, the whole bloody, 
rotten, yellow-taped, white                                                          
supreme court, capitalist hill
crime scene—
Where thugs make law 
when they break law?

We’ve waited like frogs in
our Flint water cauldron
while class war waged by
The 1% boils 
We’ve made eloquent arguments to 
madmen and women water-boarding
and bombing the world. Passionate pleas
to sociopaths—cold-blooded killers—for
Seats at the table—when we’re on the 
Menu

But are we ready to have 
a conversation on Race?
Race to resist, ridding ourselves
of killers torching Mother Earth—
Race to unite, training, organizing 
ourselves ASAP!
If this Race doesn’t quicken the pulse—
Check your embalming fluid…

© 2019. Raymond Nat Turner, The Town Crier. All Rights Reserved.

BAR’s poet in residence Raymond Nat Turner is an accomplished performing artist. You can find much more of his work at http://upsurgejazz.com .

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