Testi-lyin’ low Barr

Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence

05 Aug 2020

a man ‘made’ $13 billion in a day—while
Stomachs of millions of men, women and
children are symphony orchestras tuning
to “Last Days of Pompeo…”
But a class wartime consigliere—William
The Redactor is a very bad actor—an old
Agency man; way cool with the klan—And
Stonewallin’ his callin’/Gaslightin’ his fightin’
Testi-lyin’ his trade—Loyalty like his is how a
man is
Made…

low Barr raised his right hoof high
Testi-lyin’—
solemnly swearing to spin sons of storm-
troopers and shattered skulls, stolen eye-
balls, bloodied faces and broken bones they
Left, into a fractured Antifa fairytale…A
camouflage-clad mushroom cloud from
smoking guns, shooting holes in science:
Testing, contact tracing, quarantining…

A camouflage-clad mushroom cloud overrunning
mortuaries; stuffing refrigerator trucks with tens
of thousands of bodies; Hijacking shipments of PPE
intended for housekeepers, nurses, docs; forcing pork
plant workers back to work without proper PPE and
physical spacing; forcing teachers’ and children to
study death this fall—Antifa’s taking an American
Life every 90 seconds!
Antifa—not Banana Republicans or Wall Street Dems—
strong-armed $740 billion, slipping it to The Five
Families for fighters, bombers, aircraft carriers and
Helicopters—sneaking extra billions for boy toys in
Coronavirus relief—plus billions more to apartheid
exterminating indigenous people

Antifa’s demonizing and infiltrating police departments—
sabotaging body cams, stealing uniforms—in fact, Antifa
stole uniforms, killed George Floyd, framed four officers

Before bursting into Breonna Taylor’s crib and pumping
her trembling brown body full of hot lead
Antifa’s attacking journalists; beating legal observers;
firing projectiles at protestors’ heads, putting out eyes,
knocking out teeth—causing horrendous injuries requiring
reconstructive surgery!
Antifa’s waging chemical warfare on protestors; weaponizing
Cars and running down demonstrators daily… They pushed a
man down in Buffalo and busted his head; They hunted Ahmaud
Arbery on a Southern Road; They slithered in Mother Emanuel
and murdered 9 parishioners in prayer—
Why, Antifa scum even tried killing Cornel West in Charlottesville;
That’s why it’s extremely dangerous to talk of defunding the police!

Kidnapping immigrant children, holding them in hotels and
former Wal-Marts; Closing polling places in Black and Brown
neighborhoods; Blockading Cuba, Zimbabwe, Iran, Venezuela—
depriving peoples of food and medicines—provoking war with
China—Antifa lowlifes even shot Lincoln and blamed it on Booth!

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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