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Rouge State
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
28 Mar 2018
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rouge state
who wants some of this???

Nuclear bully’s roaring for war
Thru the mouth of its dinosaur—
At war ever since its bloody birth
Now, threatening the entire earth!

Rouge State—
warlike deadweight
you annihilate
Subjugate
Expropriate—
you devastate

Rouge State—
Land of the inmate
you incarcerate
Infiltrate
Assassinate—
you intimidate

Rouge State, we don’t for sure—
we think revolution’ s the cure

Rouge State—
Land of apartheid
home of ‘race’ hate
where ‘whites’ tailgate
and hallucinate
‘blacks’ somnambulate

Rouge State—
Bombs detonate
make Peoples immigrate
you discriminate
you’re not ‘great’
Really third-rate
Rouge State, we don’t for sure—
we think revolution’ s the cure…

Poet’s note: inspired by Jimi Hendrix’s version of the Troggs' “Wild Thing”

The Town Crier, Raymond Nat Turner © 2018 All Rights Reserved

Find much more of Raymond Nat Turner's work at http://upsurgejazz.com.

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