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Political violence has no place— Like home?
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
17 Jul 2024
Donald Trump tackled by Secret Service
REUTERS/Brendan McDermid

“the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today—

my own government ….”

—Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Violence is as American as cherry pie.”

—H. Rap Brown/Jamil al-Amin

“Can’t you just shoot them? 

Shoot them in their legs or something?” 

He asked

As Arab Spring morphed into Occupy,

Into George Floyd Summer, into Black

Lives Matter marchers; Marching most of May

When spring street heat blossomed like roses from concrete—

Tweet sent unmarked cars of gun thugs, snatching activists off

Portland streets

“We sent in US Marshals” and  “fifteen minutes it was over!”

Gloated Boss Tweet, after sending assassins to extrajudicially

Erase an anti-racist resister

“I am your warrior,

I am your justice, 

I am your retribution—

We will root out Marxists, Communists 

Living like vermin …” 

Boss Tweet crowed to cult, Führer-Mussolini-like

“Why can’t we use nuclear weapons?” 

He once asked.

No nuke. MOAB— Mother Of All Bombs—A-OK

For Afghanistan. Only smoked several dozen innocents.

Wow, how cool was it whacking an Iranian general—on

Iraqi soil!

“Finish the job!” he barked at Genocide Joe regarding Gaza. 

Exiting the War House, executing 13 death row prisoners he

Should know …

Weaponizing words and low-Barr lawyers like disgraced, dis-

barred drunkard, Count Ghouliani, he made poll workers lives

Living hell!

Bleach briefings. Death panel press conferences. Duct-

Taped mouths of scientists. Red nose, 

Big shoe shows crushed lives of 500,000+

Loved ones like cigarette butts … dark pandemic days

Dictator For A Day, or a Mad Celebrity Chef ?

Recipes hurl us into fascist food processor? Recipes

Make Amerikkka Grate/Grind/Puree/Whip/Frappé—

Force-feed us Führer-Mussolini mashups?

Grind gestapo boot heels in pureed Pinochet faces? Unsavory,

Unjust desserts—17 year shelf lives—Code word: DAY ONE?

Let’s let Mad Celebrity Chef; Dictator For A Day;

Overseas-owned Boss Tweet be our ‘warrior.’ Our

‘Justice’ … Running Lompoc’s or Leavenworth’s

Yard for exercise. Minus golf cart. Minus driving,

Putting. Minus minions and cultist caddies, chasing down his 

Balls …

 

© 2024. 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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