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Gimme, gimme, gimme …
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
26 Feb 2025
"Trump Digs Coal"

A ‘wise’ guy’s got the power—
To treason away
With schemes of greed/The People end up
With nothing/Or nothing at all …
(Make you an offer you can’t refuse—
When ya got nothin, you got nothin to lose )

Gimme, gimme, gimme …
All the oxygen in the room! All the air time in the world!
All the New York Post pages! All headlines—all papers—
All the time!

Gimme, gimme, gimme …
All the narrow space in Fox-box foot soldiers’ heads—
Rent-free! All the cult-worship,
All the boot-licking, brown-nosing physically possible!

Gimme, gimme, gimme …
All the hubris, humbug, bamboozlement, tomfoolery, chicanery
Squeeze-able onto the back of the Wizard’s wagon—
Already overloaded with elephant excrement and donkey dung!

Gimme, gimme, gimme …
All your tax dollars in the treasury; all the gold in Fort Knox
All your Medicare monies and Medical information; All your
SNAP, Social Security, student loan funding and information!

Gimme, gimme, gimme …
All your passwords, your codes and clearances!  All your checks and
Balances! All your checking and savings accounts—whatever amounts!
All your rights! All your amendments, especially 1st, 4th, 13th and 14th!

Gimme, gimme, gimme …
Greenland
Canada
The Gulf
The other 2/3 of Mexico
The Panama Canal
Pacific
Atlantic
Gaza, The Middle East, and 1/3 of Ukraine!
NATO moved Toronto
Too close to Buffalo—
Windsor too close to Detroit—
We have a right to defend ourselves—Gimme Canada!

Gimme Greenland …
Gotta have it—
Gonna grab it—
Like genitalia of some unsuspecting woman!

Gimme Greenland …
Gotta have those rare earth metals! Give ‘em up!
Gotta wet our beaks—get a piece of the action!
Gotta have it! Our borders are being overrun! We won’t be outdone!

Gimme Greenland …
Gonna claim it—And rename it— “Red, White, Blue Land!”
For The Well-To-Do Land; Bid Rights Adieu Land; Right Wing
Coup Land; Mobster Switcheroo Land; Reich Déjà Vu Land!

Gimme Greenland …
Gonna export remote-controlled, red nose, big shoe
Shows to its shores! Duct tape mouths of scientists,
And suck provinces into pandemic PPE bidding wars!

Gimme Greenland …
Gonna spit bleach solutions— as a million perish needlessly …
Gonna toss paper towels—Puerto Rico-style—hurricane aftermath
And bloviate about what a Chinese hoax climate catastrophe is!

We’re gonna get Great Again!
Don’t be so woke!
We’re gonna get Great Again!
Don’t be so woke!

Gimme Greenland …
“Drill, baby, drill!
Gimme Gaza …
Kill, baby kill …”

We’re gonna get Great Again!      (Repeat and FADE)

© 2025. 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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