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Role Model… Or, Fast Food For Thought?
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
04 Jun 2013
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by Raymond Nat Turner

If there’s one thing Black children don’t need, it’s a Role Model like this one.

 

Role Model… Or, Fast Food For Thought?

by Raymond Nat Turner

 

He orders

Take out

Tuesdays, and

Justice is served

On shards of glass,

Pulverized cement and

A bloody batter of

Blackened brains

Over filet of female

Infants—their eggs

Delicacies for the caviar

Cayman Island crowd!

Question: should grandsons

Cam and B, seven and nine,

Aspire to such heights?

 

Raymond Nat Turner can be contacted at upsurgejazz.com.

 

Raymond Nat Turner © 2013 All Rights Reserved 

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