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Booing Boss Tweet’s Cruel Reich Cult wherever they go
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
17 Jun 2026
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Crowd booing Donald Trump
Donald was booed at the NBA finals.New York Times. Shawn Paik

The boos are growing stronger 
The boos are lasting longer …
Crescendoing class-war bugle calls —
thundering tsunamis —
from factory floors, from stadiums, from arenas, from 
concert halls, bouncing off white supremacist border walls

The boos are growing stronger 
The boos are lasting longer …
Lions and elephants roaring, rejecting orange ICE Age rampage. Rejecting bassackwards 
Wayback Machine Making America Grate again. Splitting families up in profit-driven 
torture centers. Rejecting double-dipping, rights-stripping, grifting, gerrymandered Jim Crow
$campaigns and $elections turning our sweat beads, blisters, callouses into their personal ATMs.

The boos are growing stronger 
The boos are lasting longer …
Background vocals for SNAP songs stolen from babies’ growling bellies.
Harmonies for cancer patients’ plug-pulling laments
and dirges of screaming farmers fucked by their Tariff Sheriff arresting
our development at 2 bags of groceries for the price of 6 …

The boos are growing stronger 
The boos are lasting longer …
Foghorns warning fishing boats ‘bout mass murder on high seas and 
War Of The Week. Warning of walking waste, fraud and abuse by 
2,000 lb. bomb-worshippers —
Department of Class War on working-class — home and abroad.

The boos are growing stronger 
The boos are lasting longer …

© 2026. 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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