by BAR poet in residence Raymond Nat Turner
This week our poet in residence offers a brief meditations upon where and what sorts of bombing ought to be allowed, if any, and upon the lapse of White House mouthpiece Sean Spicer's descent from manufacturing fake news into promulgating fake history....
For The Planet and Humanity
To Survive
BOMBING
must
be
Abolished
or
Forever
restricted
to
Borscht
Belt
Chitlinā
Circuit
Sunset
Strip
theatersā
KILLING
lives
in
.
.
.
Raymond Nat Turner Ā© 2017 All Rights Reserved
canāt make this up
If you needed a nosh
or just wanted to schmooze;
If you needed directions,
or wished to swap work
Assignments;
If you had problems
with passport papers,
or profiling by the Gestapo;
If you needed a new
yellow starāor just needed
to know if
Kristallnacht was onā
The Holocaust Center
was the spot!
Raymond Nat Turner Ā© 2017 All Rights Reserved
Raymond Nat Turner is an acclaimed poet and performance artist.
Find much more of his work at http://upsurgejazz.com.
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