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Who bombed Palestine this time?
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
22 Feb 2023
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Who bombed Palestine this time?
East Palestine, Ohio (Photo: Twitter/ @DC_Draino)

                                                                                       Who bombed Palestine this time?

 

Who bombed Palestine this time?

MOAB: Mother of All Bombs?

2 miles long—32,000 gallon payloads?

Locomotives pivoting on twisting tracks;

Railcars teeter-tottering on rotted ties,

wobbly rails—bunny-hopping over

intersections— washed out regularly like

Regulations?;

Who bombed Palestine this time?

No “Cast Lead” operation, F-16s

“mowing the grass?”

Who bombed Palestine this time?

Remember railroad strikers? Sick leave? Safety?

Remember Ol’ Schmo’s iron fist beneath mush

mouthed platitudes? Remember his force-feeding

Workers the contract they voted down by 80% ?

Remember Bipartisan Build Back Better? “Back to

work, boys—there’ll be no derailing corporate profits—

We’re like Boss Tweet’s gang, ripping regulations out

giving CEOs’ saddlebags the Stock-Buy-Back

Mumps!” ;

Who bombed Palestine this time?

Self-regulation smoking gun? Capitalist magic? 50 cars?

Presto!—100? Twice As Long Trains—hazardous

chemicals— hurtling through Harm’s Way? Skeleton crew

horror stories? Cutting car-men— Presto!—remaining crew

sped up? Civil War braking making new equipment and

maintenance Mythology—spread sheet fiction? ;

Who bombed Palestine this time?

Who control burned from gated/guarded enclaves—children’s

Boarding schools outside Ohio/Pennsylvania Sacrifice Zones?

Who made mushroom cloud-blackened soot? Poisonous gas

fetching Flint water from Ohio’s rivers; dead fish-filled streams

and coops of dead chickens?

Who wrote $1,000 ‘Convenience Checks’ kicking cancers down

the road? 

 

© 2023. Raymond Nat Turner, The Town Crier. All Rights Reserved.



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 and PayPal.

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