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Black Lives Matter…
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
10 Feb 2021
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Black Lives Matter…
Black Lives Matter... / Photo: Photo: Emmett Till

B-B-B-Black Lives M-M-M-Matter…
Unless you listening to loud music;
shoveling snow; Or own a phone or car…
B-B-B-Black Lives M-M-M-Matter…
Unless you breaking up a fight; or your
brake light’s broken…

B-B-B-Black Lives M-M-M-Matter…
Unless you a Chicago child unschooled
in Mississippi apartheid; Unless you a
Man not laughing at un-funny stuff and
looking up from mud into steely blue-
grey eyes; or resisting rapists coming
for your momma, sister, daughter, wife…

B-B-B-Black Lives M-M-M-Matter…
Unless you smoking a cigarette or making
A turn; Unless you a child scoring sugary
Snacks in the Sunshine State; Unless you
unhoused and have healthy reactions to
homelessness and its insanity…any city…

B-B-B-Black Lives M-M-M-Matter…
Unless you a doctor describing decent care
to a Mengele medicine man…from your ICU
bed…
B-B-B-Black Lives M-M-M-Matter…
Unless you caught trying to breathe…
between swastika of knee-
o-teen and long white arm of the law…

© 2021. Raymond Nat Turner, The Town Crier. All Rights Reserved

BAR’s poet in residence Raymond Nat Turner is an accomplished performing artist. You can find much more of his work at https://www.youtube.com/user/zigilow

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