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Build Back Better Street Heat- Shoe Leather Legislators-Pavement Policymakers
BAR Poet-in-Residence Raymond Nat Turner
10 Nov 2021
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Build Back Better Street Heat- Shoe Leather Legislators-Pavement Policymakers
Build Back Better Street Heat- Shoe Leather Legislators-Pavement Policymakers

CODE RED!!

 

Calling all street heat—shoe leather legislators— 

Calling all pavement policymakers bored by the bigtop:

clean coal clowns; fossil fools; net zero acrobats; carbon

jugglers…Bored by greasy-thumbed grifters and jingoist 

gangsters; Bored by junk metal-chested generals disguised 

as donkeys inside elephants—Tethered to tits on Wall Street’s 

bull… Blocking! Stalling! Gaslighting! Waging war by other names…

 

Calling all street heat—shoe leather legislators— 

Calling all pavement policymakers bored by the bigtop:

tired of 2/4 Dancers dancing the Limbo from bended knees;

Tired of them spinning spineless legislation swaddled in

rectangular rags—reaching across their arid aisle and

Externalizing excrement. Leaving dung-splattered streets to

3 monkeys who See No Oil; Hear No Coal; Speak of No Gas as evil…

 

Calling all street heat—shoe leather legislators— 

Calling all pavement policymakers… Who’ll stop 

the circus from sullying our names with climate 

crime? Who’ll say their names—their Wall Street 

gang names—reconnecting them to climate crimes?

Who’ll say Superstorm Chevron?

Nor’ easter Exxon; Tsunami Shell?

And who’ll say Blackened bird BP?

 

Calling all street heat—shoe leather legislators— 

Calling all pavement policymakers who may—or

may not—remember the Arab Spring; Remember Occupy

lingo “1%”/“99%.” Remember knitted brows; Remember  

putting forehead to problems

created by person Hoods—aka corporate kings and queens…

 

Calling all street heat—shoe leather legislators— 

Calling all pavement policymakers recall rubber 

bullet, plastic cuff, bloody, broken bone, stolen eyeball- 

tooth trauma…Recall draconian sentences required to

arrest killer cops; wrench slavers statues from pedestals; 

Rechristen schools, streets, parks, plazas, teams; Retire 

Unca Ben, Aunt Jemima with stars and bars at NASCAR

Calling all street heat—shoe leather legislators—

and scholars 

 

Calling all pavement policymakers—and professors…

Study resistance. Major in mass action. Your gait, your

posture’s perfect—like ours once were— 

Matriculate 2020-like. And defend dissertations entitled:

“Fossil Fuels, Force and Deception of The Corporate State—

University Of The Streets…”

 

© 2021. Raymond Nat Turner, The Town Crier. All Rights Reserved.  

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