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Don’t point fingers. Don’t ask evil questions.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
16 Jul 2025
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Alligator Alcatraz
Workers install a permanent Alligator Alcatraz sign. The facility is within the Florida Everglades, 36 miles west of the central business district of Miami, in Collier County, Florida. , Florida, on Thursday, July 3, 2025. AL DIAZ

This was a one in One Hundred Year Event!

One in Five-Hundred Year Event!

One in One Thousand Year Event—

Biggest, baddest— worst-est ever!

This was a one in One Hundred Year Event!

One in Five-Hundred Year Event!

One in One Thousand Year Event—

All we can do is prey—and Drill, baby drill!

In the Lone Star State, mass casualty events are

Football games. Games played for fossil fuels—sudden death

Over … time as droughts, wildfires, hurricanes, tornadoes,

Flash floods chant dire warnings, “We will, we will, rock you!”

In the Lone Star State, mass casualty events are

Football games. And our children are 5th round draft choices— 

Cut—or carted off fields so sponsors’ and owners’ overstuffed

Pockets stay as swollen as Guadalupe River banks

But you’ll be fine. Be grate again— when your

Children get to Heaven. No tariffs in heaven! Get on

With your lives! Go out and get Crypto— And get on

With your lives! Get Bitcoin— And get on with your lives!

Don’t ask evil questions. Don’t point fingers! Your children 

Are in a better place. Price of eggs won’t be half as high in

Heaven! Go out and get some Crypto— And get on with 

Your lives! Get Bitcoin— And get on with your lives!

Don’t point fingers! Don’t ask evil questions. Of course we’re

First Responders. Responding First, Populate “Alligator Alcatraz;” 

Responding First, Big Beautiful Bill the 99%; DOGE— FEMA,

NOAA and DEI—fire anyone Black, competent, or rocking seniority.

Responding First, Meddle in Mexico; Rename The Gulf of Mexico.

Monkey with Canada as 51st state. Strong-arm Panamanians over

Their canal. Gangster Greenland; Bully Brazil over

Internal matters; And ship shackled Venezuelans to El Salvador.

Responding First, partner killing Palestinians. Bomb Yemen. 

Strike Somalia. Incite suicidal trade war with China—Ride 

Wall Street’s bull— like a tariff roll-a-coaster. Terrorize Chicago 

Children; Mess with LA’s mayor; Wreck Cali’s Economy!

Don’t point fingers! Don’t ask evil questions.

All we can do is weigh on you—

Prey on you.    All we can do is

Pray for you—We can’t pay for you!

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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