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Pipe Dreams…
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
17 Sep 2013
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by BAR Poet-in-Residence Raymond Nat Turner

War addicts crawl ‘round Capitalist Hill

on hands and knees…

 

Pipe Dreams…

by BAR Poet-in-Residence Raymond Nat Turner

 

“Bitch, gimme a hit—

I need a hit, bitch!”

Tourettes targeted, punctuating

“Boots on the ground,” “red line

Crossed,” belligerent babbling like

A crescendo passage from the pit

Orchestra below… This world stage,

Where war addicts crawl ‘round

Capitalist Hill on hands and knees,

High beams on, frantically searching

For kibbles and bits–tiny particles of

Pretext— to put in their pipes and

Smoke to get that high again awaiting

The next domino’s fall in their pipe

Dream, The New Amerikkkan Century…

 

Raymond Nat Turner can be contacted at upsurgejazz.com.

 

Raymond Nat Turner © 2013 All Rights Reserved

 

 

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