by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
What is it about capitalist exploitation, cutthroat
Competition, alienation, isolation of a Warfare State
That drives men mad?
Weekly Mass Murders of a Warfare State
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
I.
A fatherās fire engine red eyes flood
His pillow, mourning his dear daughter;
Another mother has failed for the fifteenth
Time at counting sheep as the sun comes
Up and her sonās bed is still made and the
clock, and click of double-locks is unsynced
The Commander, The Drone Ranger, doesnāt do
Tuesday shows live. He pre-records his play-
list of Golden Oldies for heavy rotation: āOur
Hearts and Prayers Go Out Waltz,ā āSenseless
Violence Sonata,ā āThe Gun Control Conga,ā etc.
He has another play-list. A list of places to see and
people to kill. A play-list of smash hitsāTarantino
Shorts, sans N-wordā shot weekly in Syria, Yemen,
Afghanistan, Iraq, then pitched softly, like Jel-Low
Puddin/Dr. Huxtabullshit
Warheads, weaponized chatterers of the head-fixing
Industry, act mystified, āat a loss to figure out what
Happened,ā then fire fusillades of āgunmen,ā āmad
men,ā crazy men,ā āderanged shootersā with ārambling
manifestoesā at 99%ers risking real questions like:
What homicidal-suicidal-side effects do shooters suffer
Popping Do-Woppish Chantix, Luvox, Pristig, Prozac
Anti-depressants? Do Big Pharma dope-dealers face
Liability?
What is it about capitalist exploitation, cutthroat
Competition, alienation, isolation of a Warfare State
That drives men mad?
Whatās racism, sexism, classism, elitism, snobbism,
homophobia; No affordable housing, No free healthcare,
No free education, got to do with walking-woundedā
cubicle casualties snapping?
And can we set our alarms, our calendars? Can we play
Numbers? 9,12, there, 26, 32, hereāto weekly mass
Murder in Amerikkkan malls, theaters, churches, classrooms, newsrooms,
boardrooms?
Business as usual in NYC, time refuses to waddle
with young men whose pants hang off their butts. It
Goosesteps double-time, in Brooks Brothers suits like
Wall Street gangstas on speedā¦
pre-school Daily āNewsā delights in show and tell of
How the latest shooter bothered with wig, shawl, shades,
six clips and three license plates.
When, really, blue uniform, badge, camouflage fatigues
and combat boots suffice, once killing pausesā¦
Figures donāt lie, but liars figureā¦Does gunfire really
Kill 88 a day in the USA? Can Canadians, Aussies,
French, Brits, Japaneseāeven Germansāhoist foam
Fingers and chant U-S-A # 1? Would they compete in
Driving mad, drugging, jailing and killing their people?
II. In discussing this weekās mass murder, mention
the colonial settler project called Amerikkkaās a
Scorched earth Real Estate scam. And homicidal
Speculator/squatters like āOld Hickoryā made
Mortgages of massacred men, women, children,
slaughtered buffalo, deer, burned crops, cooked
books and broken treatiesāoriginal shock doctrinesā
Guaranteed by guerillas in the midst of Gatling guns,
carbines, musketsā¦
They flipped mountains, valleys, rivers, lakes; serially
sold and resold Stolen land over and over again and
Tore down yellow tape, compromising crime scenes,
Erased memory of mass murder she wrote, and made
Lead final offers, forceps for
breech
birth of
a nationā¦
Raymond Nat Turner can be contacted at upsurgejazz.com
Raymond Nat Turner Ā© 2015 All Rights Reserved
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