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Slick Willy Rides Again!
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
12 Sep 2012
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by Raymond Nat Turner

The Great

White foundation father, Vice-

Roy of Haiti and Harlem, nurse-

Maid of NAFTA, demon of de-

Regulation

 

Slick Willy Rides Again!

by Raymond Nat Turner

 

Don't know if the Bible

Said it, or Confucius 

Said it---or if I just made

This shit up: "Beware of

The one riding in bareback,

Facing backwards on an

Ol' mule for he is an impostor"

lo and behold, The Great

White foundation father, Vice-

Roy of Haiti and Harlem, nurse-

Maid of NAFTA, demon of de-

Regulation, did just that at

Offal offices and tobacco 

Country stables of the DNC 

 

Repeating like Coltrane licks in

"Out of This World," unrelenting 

Hermaneutics of suspicion swirling

Through my mind like some steroid- 

Driven dervish... I NEVER trusted

The M$%#-F@!*... the silvery- tongued,

False-fingering saxophonist from 

Arkansas--- even as an ass-kissing

Arsenio showed the candidate

A Love Supreme...

I saw through a saran-wrapped

Charlatan who would imprison

Nixon numbers of Black men and

Women; dismantle welfare with

Workfare from Reagan's wet dreams;

Bomb Bosina, bless derivatives and

Deconstruction of Glass-Steagall

During his peacetime presidency...

 

But, Negroz, who've become 

Fat and flabby from high fructose

Corn syrup years of aspiring 

Black faces in high places---

Black faces whose aspirations 

Go no further than leather chairs

In corporate boardrooms and

Cash to stash in Cayman Island

Accounts, and their freezers...

Scream and shout "Slick Willy was

Masterful and hit it out the park!"

 

Him was masterful, alright, him

Still a master after all, ain't him?

But we in the fields must keep our

Gazes fixed firmly on the Drinking

Gourd,the North Star found just

Over picket signs on picket lines...

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

Raymond Nat Turner (c) 2012 All Rights Reserved

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