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War Criminal Straw Spun to Fools Gold Hero
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
29 Aug 2018
🖨️ Print Article
John McCain, 1936-2018

Looking up at stars and stripes

flapping half staff over City College

my spirit sang, “Oh, me oh my…”

They’re honoring natural

Woman—singer of soul songs!

Celebrating gospel’s gift to the 

World—giving thanks to indigo 

Blues crossing borders, gathering tribes…

 

Instead, I find,“It’s a Barnum and

Bailey world, just as phony as it can be—”

Half staff flags—saluting somber war-

profiteers…

Warlords of Wall Street who lost their 

Hawk, their mythical maverick…

 

Their Satanic scribblers are spinning,

spinning, spinning, spinning, spinning

High fructose corn syrup sentiments—

Stinking solvent scrubbing blood up from

4 million Indochinese—lionizing their hawk 

Slurring heroic homeland defenders: “gooks!”

 

Our Silly Putty populace with Play

Dough politics—No flashbacks of

Body counts on evening news; No 

Smoke from smoldering draft cards; 

No dinner table blowups; No memory of

Militant chants keeping time for 

Millions of marching feet…is

Confused!  

Blitzkrieg bombards them hourly…

parroting Psy-Op big lie after big lie;

Toasting Jim Jones Juice to the heavens for a

War criminal crooner—would-be Beach Boy:

“Bomb-bomb-bomb, bomb-bomb Iran…”

 

A war criminal

who flew—

no Zinn moment—

who 

bombed 

who flew

who 

bombed 

who flew

who 

bombed

who flew 

who 

bombed

and 

bombed

and 

bombed

day after day

Bomb bay opening—not with rice, or roses

rechristening children ‘Collateral Damage’

22 missions—his 23rd shot down over Hanoi;

Left—no Zinn moment…with parachute and

flight suit for his 5yr stay

 

Today warheads mourn; forked tongues wagging 

feverishly…no Zinn moment…face-lifting the life—

So in love with death…

 

© 2018. Raymond Nat Turner, The Town Crier. All Rights Reserved.

Our poet in residence Raymond Nat Turner is an accomplished perforning artist of long and illustrious standing. Find more of his work at http://upsurgejazs.com

 

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