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Stein Bop Blues March On Gentrifiers
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
13 Oct 2015
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by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner

Unsettling settlers settle settling like sulfur over UN peace talks. Unsettling settlers settle neighborly disputes using police like cavalry and Kit Carson Indian killers going West.

Stein Bop Blues March On Gentrifiers

by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner

 

Shhhhhhhh

Decibel Dictators dislike drumming pouring

Poly-rhythms out windows of the Casquelord

Center, poly-rhythms propelling rainbows of

Glistening dancers into ecstatic community…

 

Shhhhhhhh

They’re bothered by Baptist, get-down Gospel

Choir rehearsal sparks, charging joyful noise

Spilling on to streets from stained glass windows …

 

Shhhhhhhh

BBQs by the Lake bother them, too. Perhaps

It’s loud laughter, line-dancing, clacking of

Black and white dominoes on tables, smells

of spicy foods feeding faces happy against all odds?

 

Shhhhhhhh

Maybe it’s not verbs bothering them? Maybe it’s

Nouns—Vooodo Children born of suspicious skin

Tone? Ebony, mocha, chocolate tones of thugs and

Thieves heard in creaking floorboards, rustling drapes

Unwelcome at home

 

Shhhhhhhh

We are Africans—Africa’s all humanity’s birthplace—

Mostly proletarians. ‘They’ are Europeans:

Italians, Irish, Polish, Scottish, etc., chasing their tales

shadowboxing ‘whiteness’ white noise next door.com

Techno-coated crackkkers, criminal lineage on Ohlone

Land…

 

Shhhhhhhh

It was Ohlone land Ohlone land it was was it Oholone land

They swiped with lead lead lead the way for swiping and flipping

Flipping and swiping swiping and flipping flipping houses like

flapjacks flipping people with blackjacks heads they win tails we

Lose…

 

Shhhhhhhh

History repeats repeats itself

History repeats repeats itself

History repeats repeats itself

History repeats repeats itself

Manifest Destiny Destiny Manifested Jerry had a plan a

10K Plan Jerry had a 10K Plan and a Pacifica program

‘We The People’ Jerry had a plan a 10K plan a 10K plan

10K plan resembling 3K plans 3K plans for Schaafing us

History repeats repeats itself

History repeats repeats itself

History repeats repeats itself

History repeats repeats itself

Unsettling settlers settle settling like sulfur over UN peace

Talks Unsettling settlers settle neighborly disputes using police

like cavalry and Kit Carson Indian killers going West Unsettling

settlers settle settling like pesticides on gardens

Killing everything living Unsettling settlers settle settling on whizzing

by whistling “Dixie” as they “Look away, look away” Unsettling settlers

settle settling in Tha Town rather than quietude of Tha Creek, or ‘Cord

Like libraries on putting greens…

 

Shhhhhhhh

History repeats repeats itself

History repeats repeats itself

History repeats repeats itself

History repeats repeats itself

Unsettling settlers settle settling on suspicious sub-prime activity

Suspicious scarlet streaks from Wells Fargo BoA and Fannie Mae

Unsettling settlers settle settling Post Racial debates in the Age of

Austerity we work too hard walking open-coated wide berths revealing

Weaponless palms showing we are not shady up to no good not potential

Threats to keep techno-coated crackkkers comfortable and at ease to keep

White noise next door.com down…

 

Shhhhhhhh

History repeats repeats itself

History repeats repeats itself

History repeats repeats itself

History repeats repeats itself

Automatic, systematic hardwired DNA they’re ‘race’ machines watch ‘em

Get down clicking mouses playing ‘race’ cards doing old jobs every Euro—

No matter how dirt poor—did: check challenge question Blacks about

‘Traveling papers’ “There’s cotton/tobacco to be picked, where you goin’,

boy/gal, who’s your masta?”

 

Shhhhhhhh

Ducks, quiet geese, they came for Occupy, next they’ll come for you….

 

Raymond Nat Turner can be contacted at upsurgejazz.com

 

Raymond Nat Turner © 2015 All Rights Reserved

 

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