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Mother Earth Is Angry!
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
01 Oct 2025
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Increasing global temperatures, represented here, and the illnesses that come with them, are not distributed equally around the world. Image: NASA

Mother Earth's angry! She’s shaking her
Head and sistar-gurling her hands on her
Hips … She’s saying, “Enough dinosaur-
Driven death and destruction! Enough!”

Meanwhile, amidst Mother Earth’s melting
Arctic, a muddle-headed fossil fool slouched.
An unhinged lecturer jousted with windmills,
Solar panels, heat pumps, electric bikes and cars.

Meanwhile, amidst Mother Earth’s ceaseless
Hot flashes, a fact-free foghorn pontificated 
Pinocchio-like — gaslighting — torturing his
Captive audience with fossil foolishness …

Mother Earth's angry! She’s saying, “You can’t
Be what you wanna be — 93 million miles from
Reality! You can’t say what you wanna say, for
Fox-boxers sane-washing and chanting, U-S-A!”

© 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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