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Hearings...
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
06 Apr 2022
Hearings...
Ketanji Brown-Jackson confirmation hearing March 23 2022 (Photo:Julia Nikhinson/Bloomberg —Getty Images)

                                                                                                        Hearings...

Hearings hear mad love for fetus, flag and constitution… Hear
dog whistle dialogue delivered by bought and bossed Jim Crow
Magnon men in Brooks Brothers suits. Hear Show Me State,
Lone Star State,Tar Heel, Palmetto, Pelican, Volunteer State
method actors serving at the pleasure of corporate pay
masters…

Hearings hear clownish conflicts of interest. Hear questions asked,
re-asked—over and over. Hear porn projection/predilection—off
hands working under desks overtime—gifting us pubic hair-Coke
can confirmations: The likes of Long Dong Silver and his neo-nazi
confederate-handler-wife. (Hi, hoe Silver!) Hearings reveal rot of
Greed-driven capitalism…

Hearings hear walking war crimes. Hear war criminals who clean up
well. Hearings hear lapel pin patriots/January 6th orchestrators of the
storming of Capitalist Hill—wannabe il Duce-Führer-Francos…
Hearings hear sadomasochist Senators Sleazy and Slimy— hear gold-
dipped strings pulled by greasy-thumb fossil fuel/war profiteer
personhoods—more hood than person…

Hearings hear angry, bitter, wicked weaponized/under-caffeinated—
mostly mediocre— ‘white’ men longing to hear themselves grieve…
Hearings hear legislative lynch mobs armed with face-lifted language;
bullet-pointed buzzwords for burning Black women at the televised
stake—As skillfully as suiciding them in Southern jails; Or
shotgunning Grandmothers in The Bronx…

Hearings hear overseers’ stripes—savage beatings—below lines of in
quiry dripping from quivering lips. Hear coded calls for Black women to
get on the Lightfoot. Take the bass out their voices befo’ confederate
cesspools. Befo’faux dens of decorum—passing gas with judgement…
Hearings demand explanations not explaining conclusions not concluding:
“The Framers” are those framing 50% of sisters and brothers behind bars!
And only Mama Harriet Black Gurl Magic: Now you see me—now you
don’t; Now you see my family—now you don’t…can free ‘em all… And
hearings—cameras pulled, headlines dissolved—are really about jumping
judges into Wall Street gangs of intersectional empire… for life…

© 2022. Raymond Nat Turner, The Town Crier. All Rights Reserved.

Former forklift driver/warehouse worker/janitor, 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: https://www.gofundme.com/f/the-town-criers-big-tooth-fund PayPal: paypal.me/towncrierRNT

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