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Disposable Killing Machines R US
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
01 Oct 2013
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by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner

The wakeful sleep of the 1% is

Haunted by long shadows of

Conscious soldiers, progeny

Of militant mass movements —

 

Disposable Killing Machines R US

by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner

 

12, 23, 32, 300, 3,000;

Long gun, handgun, back

Pack, Ryder rental truck;

Shopping mall, movie-theater,

Naval facility, army base—

A thousand to choose from—

D.C., VA, CT, CO, CA, Texas;

Aaron, Adam, James, Timothy,

Nidal, disposable killing machines…

 

Nightmares looped over

Murder manuals memorized,

Looped over recorded command voices,

Looped over clanging pots and pans

Piped through vents, driving

Pharma’s sleep deprivation

Psychotropic drug playthings mad!

 

Disposable killing machines

Sometime short-circuit, suffer

Insomnia, anxiety, depression

Hurting themselves with

Programming for hurting

“Bug splat,” “sand nigger” others

 

The wakeful sleep of the 1% is

Haunted by long shadows of

Conscious soldiers, progeny

Of militant mass movements —

Avatars of Aaron Alexis,

Christopher Dorner, Timothy

McVey and other disposable

Killing machines, morphing

Into Marilyn Buck, Geronimo

Ji-Jaga, John Brown action-

Figures, armed with semi-

Automatic Marxist analysis,

Weapon of mass instruction,

Trained to “drain the swamp”

Of its sulfur stench and war

Criminal curriculum, gassing minds…

 

Raymond Nat Turner can be contacted at upsurgejazz.com.

 

Raymond Nat Turner © 2013 All Rights Reserved 

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