â Behind every great fortune
there is a crime.â
âHonore de Balzac
This is a STICK-UP!
Hands up! Break your selves!
MORE for the GREEDYâ
Less for the needy!
Allow us to introduce ourselves:
Weâre the Department Of Grifter Enrichmentâ
No! Weâre Dictators Oligarchs Grabbing Everythingâ
Anyway, weâre recent graduates of MSU (Making Shit Up!)
Looting launched weeks ago. Weâre talking
Trillions âŚ
Whereâs the flashing lights? Hey, whereâs the
Yellow tape emblazoned: CRIME SCENE?
No broken windows ⌠No crunchy sidewalks âŚ
No eagle-eyed helicopters hovering overhead?
No SWAT? No teargas? No stun-grenades? No zip-ties?
No swollen police presence of George Floyd Summer?
Boys From Brazil-like looters; weâre led by a light-fingered
South African stickup man; An Apartheid repeat offender.
Weâre snatching SNAP, food pantries, Meals On Wheels,
School lunch programsâsnatching growling belliesâ bread!
Boys From Brazil-like wreckers, weâre lead by capitalismâs
Cruelty cultâsacking Medicare!
Weâre pulling plugs on dialysis machinesâcancelling
Cancer treatments and your grandmaâs meds for sport!
Boys From Brazil-like bandits; weâre lead by a wild Boer
Holdup man. A nazi-loving/morally bankrupt, spiritual
Pauperâ Posing as the worldâs richest human. And weâre
Clawing, grabbing at the bulging purse of Social Security!
Capitalismâs one long con game âŚ
Our looting is hundreds of years old!
We offer no answers fixing messes capitalismâs created.
We do, however, fence fake solutions for nonexistent problems.
Weâre digital death panelsâroving office to office.
We âbreak thingsâ called peoples lives!
We solve mass suffering with more mass suffering.
We ease pain with more pain âŚ
We âbreak thingsâ called peoples lives! Instead of breaking
Ground for hospitals and clinics offering healthcare for all.
Instead of ground breaking for hammers pounding Go-Go rhythms;
And saws screaming sawdust symphonies, raising roofs Amish-style!
Our menu is simple: Homelessness; Hunger; School Shootings
Du Jour; And Wars of The Week ⌠We gather weekly âround
The Way Back MachineâWest Wing of the War Houseâ
Plotting with white Supreme Courtesans and Capitalist Hill hustlers âŚ
Profits are the great God we answer to! We canât change âŚ
A lethal piece of orange pyriteâ orange wrecking ballâ
Emitting lies every nano second is the Buddha we bow to! (This is
As good as it gets. Save yourselves, save the planet from our ravages âŚ)
Š 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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