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Why good guys with guns flunk out (In schools near you)
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
10 Jun 2022
Why good guys with guns flunk out (In schools near you)
Press conference in Uvalde, Texas, May 26, 2022. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills)

                                                                                                    Why good guys with guns flunk out

                                                                                                              (In schools near you) 

 

They were the bullies—taunting and

mocking creative kids—or creatives

Bullied to tears. They were animal

torturers; rotten, dirty tricksters least

Liked— least likely legally laid.

Failed jocks—highlight plays coming

After the whistle—

Boxers whose best work was below the

belt—

Closet klansmen/Hitler-lovers jackin’ off

on Mein Kampf

Now, they’ve grown bigger, stronger on

Vitamin S—backed by gangs posing as

‘unions’ with lotsa guns; loads of loot;

Impunity—and 24/7 Cop-a-ganda…

Now, they are the framers—finding fathers—

finding magic powder, pills, joints, knives,

Guns in coats and cars. Now, they are Amerikkka’s

Finest fiction writers—Superb testa-lying under oath!

Travel agents shipping working-poor people upstate

to scurvy infernos for slow motion assassinations…

Now, they are God with Glock, weaponized knees and arms.

White supremacist magicians transforming common situations

into dramatic dances of death! Makers of ‘split-second’

decisions: which one of us thousand will die at their hands this

year?

‘Split-second’ decisions: Beating First Amendment urges out of

oppressed peoples; Firing flash-bang grenades into faces of Marchers,

blowing their eyeballs out… ‘Split-second’ decisions: Ramming and

bumping protestors with patrol cars; And ordering pregnant people

down on the ground with ‘less lethal’ love for fetuses— Than 4th

graders with 10 yrs. experience and Saturn-sized dreams…



© 2022. 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    PayPal: paypal.me/towncrierRNT

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