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Chasing Chuck Tumor's testicular cancer—or building Resistance to Stage 4 Capitalism?
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
26 Mar 2025
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Chuck Schumer
Chuck Schumer speaks at a press conference vaguely addressing the economic impact of billionaires on working families.

Billionaire bought and bossed talk shop. Alcohol, Geritol and
Protocol reign shares traded on the floor. Well-off windbags—
Huff and puff—only to stuff
Our needs; pleas; SOSs; in cylindrical files destined for dumpsters …

Wise old owl flaps tethered wings. And peers over red readers
For Kabuki Theater: Testicular Cancer versus Zombie Lies …
Weasel words kiss king’s ring. Avert government shutdown. And
Sell our social safety net to slimy kleptocrats/wannabe strongmen!

What’s making the first fifty days of fascism—blitzkrieg/warp speed—
So unsettling? Tumor’s testicular cancer is but a tiny part of an answer—
Same as $campaign contributions metastasizing for tag-team $elections.
Capitalism’s the root cause—the real, chronic, and acute cause …

Bipartisan billionaires burned our boat. Blew up our bridge.
Forced our train from the station … Caused our cancers. And,
Like toothpaste, resisting returning to the tube; Genie refusing
To jump back in bottle … we will not turn around and go back.

Bipartisan billionaires fear red hot lava of resistance! Fear
Fiery flow rising from below! Fear steamy street heat of
Millions—mad as hell—unable to put up with prancing, chainsaw-
Wrecking ball, scorched earth attacks on our lives … a minute more!

Our prognosis is poor ’til we STOP tying-off arms. STOP
Holding noses—damaging brains! STOP demobilizing
Movements. STOP de-activating activists. STOP joy-riding on the
Donkey with crack pipe dreams of DP remolded militant workers party.

We’re rehabbing. Re-training fat, flabby, atrophied dream muscles.
Retraining muscle memories of shoe leather lessons learned in Arab
Spring! George Floyd Summer! Strike-tober! Occupy and all other
Harvest-rich seasons of mass mobilization, of mass organization!

We’re compassionately releasing life-imprisoned dreams! Dreams
Locked behind concertina wire eyelids. Dreams cowering beneath
Gun towers of tradition, oppression and propaganda. Class-struggling with our
Resistance medicines—our simple prescriptions, “Organize! Organize! Organize!”

© 2025. 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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