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…Freakish flight of the fearless Fly…
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
14 Oct 2020
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…Freakish flight of the fearless Fly…
…Freakish flight of the fearless Fly…

There sat the morally constipated politician
fartin’ ‘round with truth like an amateur magician…
Locked, loaded, flinging fecal matter at a class mate…
morally constipated politician seized the ‘debate—’
When spiraling like pigskin past the Secret Servicemen 
a freakish, fearless, big black anti-fascist fly flew in!

Buzzing the blues, flashing a luminous shit-eating grin
‘bout the biz of deflating lofty Neo nazi spin—
backspinning us darkness of 1933 Berlin
Then the bluesy black fly launched his militant sit-in

More the politician pontificated in bovine dung—
the tighter the fearless, anti-fascist fly hung and clung
leaving some fresh droppings on an insensitive warhead—
Solidarity with the families of all the dead…

© 2020. 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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