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Officer Prodigy
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
17 Nov 2021
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Officer Prodigy
Officer Prodigy

                                                                                                                        Officer Prodigy

                                                                                                  “The police are not here to create disorder,

                                                                                                         they're here to preserve disorder.”

                                                                                                                    —Richard J. Daley

 

Mother loaded Officer Prodigy into her vehicle;

and drove him from “The Land of Lincoln” to the

“Badger State” to play policeman

on protestors with his wonderful assault weapon…

 

By nightfall he’d shot 3. Killed 2. Skip the academy!

Go straight to the streets: ’hood, barrio, reservation!

Skip the academy! He knew to shoot first and answer

questions in court. He knew sci-fi, Pig Latin and the 5

White magic words:

“…I feared for my life…” “I feared for my safety—“

(Feared it wouldn’t release fast enough for kill shots)

 

Officer Prodigy did everything right. Cleaned up for

court. Raised his right hoof, testi-lyin—Oscar-winning

performance complete with crocodile tears…He did

everything right making his bones. Earning his bent badge;

his grim reaper-death head tats. Earning notches on his rifle

butt. Earning access to blu klux klan bar rituals—earning his

Handcuffs, taser, mace and gun belt.

 

Officer Prodigy did everything right. Earned Fraternal Order

 of Police-Benevolent Patrolmen Association props from top

cops! Earned cop college education—one night school class

in the University of the Streets…

 

On to master classes with Clubber Williams; Choker Vasquez;

Gloves Davis; Jude “The Foot Doctor” Sipano and other All Star

instructors! On to finishing school—learning how to keep “War

bags’ full of throwaway guns, knives and dope in the trunk of his

cruiser—Learning how to plant ‘evidence’/“put’ cases on” people!

 

Oh, what a wonderful start when he walks—or is wrist-slapped!

There’ll be victory laps, bar-hops, celebrating his kills, his walk.

Bet there’ll even be a brand new patrol car parked beneath his

Christmas tree, emblazoned in bone white letters, “To protect

 and serve…”

 

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

Former forklift driver/warehouse worker/janitor, Raymond Nat Turner is a NYC poet;  BAR's Poet-in-Residence; and founder/co-leader of the jazz-poetry ensemble UpSurge!NYC. You can Vote for his work at:  

GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/the-town-criers-big-tooth-fund

PayPal: paypal.me/towncrierRNT

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