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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