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Genocidal Joseph’s coat of many logos or Boss Tweet’s swastika sensibilities?
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
07 Feb 2024
Joe Biden at Lockheed Martin missile plant
Joe Biden at Lockheed Martin missile plant in Troy, Alabama in 2022. (Photo: Jonathan Ernst/Reuters)

Genocidal Joseph’s coat of many logos
or Boss Tweet’s swastika sensibilities?

I.
I've watched some of the best minds
of my generation
Deprive great brains of oxygen—
Holding noses and voting … over and over again …

I've watched them watch Mike and Ike;
Good Cop-Bad Cop; Kabuki Theater make
"This” the “most important”  $campaign-
$election of our lifetimes … over and over again …

II.
Ruling-class rattler-cobra ‘choices:’
Tattered trench coat festooned with logos of
Generals—General Dynamics, General Atomic,
General Electric, General Motors? Or the other
Tattered trench coat festooned with logos of
Lockheed-Martin, Boeing, Raytheon, Northrop Grumman?

Ruling-class rattler-cobra ‘choices:’
Angry, babbling old boxer who ate too much
leather fighting one fight too many for the rich?
Or, Mussolini 1st, 4th, 13th, 14th Amendment
Redactor—‘reality’ actor fit only for running for
Exercise at Lompoc or Leavenworth?

Ruling-class rattler-cobra ‘choices:’
Belligerent celebrator of slaughter—
Grim Reaper-gaited genocidal ghoul?
Or, 91charge-4 trial Führer-in-training?

Blood floods, rubble’s rampant as bombs reign,
bullets fly, and the world burns …   How many
more times must we hold our noses kicking the
can down crooked roads another 4 more years?

© 2024. 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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