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Hurricane Harvey and his destructive siblings...
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
12 Oct 2022
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Hurricane Harvey and his destructive siblings...
Hurricane Harvey in Dickinson, Texas August 27, 2017. (Photo: REUTERS/Rick Wilking)

                                                                   Hurricane Harvey and his destructive siblings…

 

Rivers rising, 

climbing above  

confederate flagged  

license plates, above climate  

denier bumper stickers— 

Once every thousand year events— 

Weekly… 

 

Waist-deep water’s  

swelling into mocha broth— 

disappearing pickup trucks— 

vanishing vaunted gun racks/sacred 

2nd Amendment Rights 

 

“We are family…” 

belted from the top of their lungs 

Sisters Sandy, Rita, Katrina raucously shout out their 

Climate Anthem with Harvey in four-part harmony— 

doubling over with devilish laughter; mocking an 

Orange piece of pyrite and the 1% it represents… 

 

“We are family…” 

Sisters Sandy, Rita, Katrina and 

Brother Harvey trade torrential fours: 

“Pulling out of Paris, huh?!” 

“Where’s your wall, now, Mr. Mutha-fukkka?!” 

“Oh, all options on the table, huh?!” 

“Mother Of All Bombs?! How ‘bout Mother Of All Boats?!” 

“Hey, Boss Tweet, wanna grab some 155 MPH pussy?!” 

“Love football game flyovers?! 

How ‘bout Harvey’s—enough ‘Clear Beer’ to fill 

fifty thousand football stadiums like Dixie Cups— 

A hundred thousand times over?!” 

 

“Hey, Lone Star State, hate ‘Sanctuary Cities?!’  

We bet you’ll love sheltering asylum seekers in your 

prosperity pimps’ mega-churches 

…during our more frequent visits of Biblical Proportions…” 





© 2022. 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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