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Killing the Kennedy Center softly for the Reich?
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
30 Jul 2025
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Kennedy Center

With our own say so
How low can we go
On nazi limbo
To be WOKE no mo?

Woohoo! Birth Of A Nation screenings— sprinkled with heavy rotation of
Leni Riefenstahl and Kid Rock never grow old. Hot sounds of new house
Bands like The Grifters; and RICCO Rhythm Masters signal DEI’s done!
Cooked! Finished! No mas!

No more bobbing heads, tapping toes, hips swaying in seats. From now on
It’s McCain-ish crooning, “Bomb, bomb, bomb—Bomb, bomb Iran!” It’s
It’s Ku Klux Klan Karaoke Night— mic drops celebrating
2,000 lb. bombs on hospital incubators and their starving premie babies.

We hold the Kennedy Center’s keys. We control the
Horizontal. We control the vertical in this Twilight
Zone’s Wayback Machine. Where WOKE is broke; and
DEI has come to die; We Make Entertainment Great Again!

With our own say so
How low can we go
On nazi limbo
To be WOKE no mo?

We’ve de-DEI-ed US music—bleached Blues—jettisoned Jazz.
Replaced African roots and rhythms with red nose, big shoe shows.
Replaced woke-ness with reservation, plantation, concentration camp songs
In the key of vanilla ICE; War of The Week/School Shooting du Jour flavors.

The J6 Pardon-Neers just sold out. Remember their Capitalist Hill
Breakthrough performance? Some show! Heavy Metal beasts—
Killed with their triple platinum smash hit—
“Breaking And Entering!” We’re still picking up the pieces.

Promise: we’ll present only the heel-clicking best of the best. 
52 weeks of the Waste Fraud and Abuse Band. And the return
Of ghoulish girl groups—like puppy-shooting— Botox Babes!
Funding’s fickle and faddish. But woke is broke; and DEI is dead.

© 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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