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 …
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