It’s not personal, it’s Business…

Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence

15 Jan 2020

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Blood!Fire! First 48 hours New
Year; New Decade. Primitive, hi-
tech bloodshed for rogue state
‘freedom’ muscling in on Mullah
turf. Luftwaffe whacks gangster
rivals. Headlines should scream;
History whispers:
It’s not personal, it’s business…

Wehrmacht stock just shot
to the top with crude prices—
The vulture’s wetting its beak
in Iranian-Iraqi rackets—
It’s not personal, it’s business…

Mushroom cloud eyes, smoking
gun beak—the vulture’s vested
interests are chaos, carnage—
Bloodletting… Weaponized words,
Microchip compassion… Its GNP:
charred silhouettes, severed
heads; limbless bodies; and
rabid dogs battling battalions
of flies for decomposing corpses.
It considers children collateral
damage; seniors civilian casualties—
It’s not personal, it’s business…

Nonstop, the vulture caws
cuckoo questions parrots pick
up for suckers’ consumption:
“Was the unwise guy being too
big of a big shot for the hit?”
“Why didn’t the War House get
Permission from the Commission?
“Why didn’t The Five Families get
Permission from the Commission?”
Tchotchkes-chested Five Family
Muscle’s for Murder, Inc.—Wall
Street gangs. Five Family muscle
Shouts, “‘WE' are at War!” ‘WE' are at War!”
WE reply, “No! Not this time, dear white
boys. YOU, High rollers, major stock holders—
Seven-figure CEO, rollin’ in war profiteer
dough are at war! WE are tired, WE are
weary of YOU and YOUR looped Wars…”
The Drone Ranger knew,
riding in on his donkey
against “dumb wars.” Boss Tweet
knew, riding in on his elephant,
trousers on fire, against “useless
Wars.” Like Slick Willy, when his
impeachment front paged, Tweet
finds foreign peoples to sanction
and
Bomb
It’s not personal, it’s business…

Warning to the 99%—
Please, don’t lynch yourselves—
hung up on three branches of
Theater:
War House, Capitalist Hill, White
Supreme Court
Funding Five Families’ 2 sets
of cooked books, its garrisons
of greasy-thumbed accountants:
Checks gargantuan,
Balances ballooning—
No wonder assassins are swooning,
in sync with two wings of the vulture
flapping together precisely. As usual,
Engorging their bipartisan budgets
for war quite Nicely…
It’s not personal, it’s business…

BAR’s poet in residence Raymond Nat Turner is an accomplished performing artist. You can find much more of his work at http://upsurgejazz.com .

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