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“Our” Congressmen and Mayors obey Multibillionaires (cops are just their henchmen) Defunding The People
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
15 Feb 2023
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“Our” Congressmen and Mayors obey Multibillionaires  (cops are just their henchmen) Defunding The People
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                                                                   “Our” Congressmen and Mayors obey Multibillionaires  

                                                                     (cops are just their henchmen) Defunding The People



 

Who wakes up—toasty, warm

Bed; calls in sick to $30 an hr.

Job; rolls out of rent-controlled

Apartment—smashes car windows;

steals catalytic converters/robs bodegas;

on the side? Who?

What strikebreakers pose as unionists—

Work overtime as pickpockets—

stealing

40% from fat wallets of handcuffed cities?

What guardians of homelessness brutalize Big Apple

Unhoused; sacrifice citizens to

sun gods of profits—City of Angels/ruled by devils—

And practice Windy City wickedness against activists?

What freedom of assembly suppressers moonlight as

Tiki torch men, masquerading as wild Boers with badges?

What apartheid state-trained thugs keep Black mayors

on the Lightfoot; curled in Papa Cop posture—Taking the

Bass out their voices?

Whose bloodthirsty work … elicits these words:

“Warning to our listeners and viewers, the following

footage contains graphic images of …Violence? Who?

Flight attendants? Nurses? Dentists? Optometrists?

Who in Sweden slaughters a thousand a year and keeps

working?

Who in New Zealand butchers eleven hundred annually

and isn’t stopped?

What cutthroats called Clubber, Choker, Gloves, Foot

Doctor could ‘earn’ overtime in Okinawa Testi-lyin on

’10-ringing’ working-class people—And shooting dogs for fun?

What assassins’ Live rounds=Dead citizens would be celebrated

by drunken, bent badge bar rituals in Belize?



© 2023. 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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