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KNOW FRACKIN' WAY...
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
22 Aug 2012
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by Raymond Nat Turner

Big gaseous capitalists are “Ejaculating Satin's sperm into

Stolen Native American land, Mother Earth, Pachymama….”

 

KNOW FRACKIN' WAY...

by Raymond Nat Turner

 

INDEPENDENCE: sticks, pedals,

Cymbals and heads connecting,

Sticks, pedals, cymbals and

Heads connecting...

ENERGY: left hand, right foot,

Right hand, left foot; left foot,

Right hand, right foot, left hand

Dumping endorphin in our blood-

Streams, washing away workaday

Dust... Jazz drummers are real

INDEPENDENT ENERGY... sending

Us to SWING STATES that count...

 

On the other hand, with a

Trillion threads connecting

Us across continents, area codes,

Zip codes and GPS commands,

How can they crow on and on

About ENERGY INDEPENDENCE,

ENERGY INDEPENDENCE, ENERGY

INDEPENDENCE?

Like Connecticut and Delaware

Rivers we are bound, but unbound,

Trammeled yet untrammeled by

Thin, imaginary lines on paper

 

With the trillion threads connecting

Us and upping the ante, we will pay

In currencies of stunted seasons, droughts,

Food riots and climate exiles, sooner or later...

Even simple-minded men with miniature hearts

Hidden in gated communities realize this;

Even selfish settlers with SoHa and MiMa,

Million dollar condos know that they are

Worthless, without potable water:

 

Fracking,

Attacking,

Ejaculating Satin's sperm into

Stolen Native American land--

Mother Earth, Pachymama--

Seeding her soil, surface waters,

Aquifers with baby Bophals and

Fukishimas and toasting our blood-

Streams and livers with cancer cocktails

 

Fracking,

Attacking,

Strafing solar panels, bombing wind mills,

Taking out geothermal threats with flaming

Faucets, exploding wells and earthquakes,

Where there were none, before...

 

Fracking,

Attacking,

Hijacking science, spinning truth with

FOX-box foot soldiers, inbedded

Politicians and regulators with alligator

Arms, regulating returns on frackers

Investments like they regulate tobacco

Thugs, deep-water drillers, clean coal con-

Men and Franken food experimenters...

 

Fracking,

Attacking,

Tracking and testing before teaching the lesson:

We are our own conservators,regulators,law makers--

Charging each frack as assault with a deadly weapon,

Declaring each well a crime scene and wrapping it

Along with the perps offices, cars and homes in

Yellow tape; declaring their meetings terrorist con-

Spiracies, their emails evidence and arresting them

After serving cease and desist orders, reading in part:

"Keep your mutha-frackin' fluids out of our aquifers!"

 

Raymond Nat Turner can be contacted at Raymond (at) upsurgejazz.com.

Raymond Nat Turner  (c) 2012 All Rights Reserved

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