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A Football Fan's Lord Prayer
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
09 Nov 2022
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A Football Fan's Lord Prayer
Former football star and senate candidate Herschel Walker speaks at a rally with Donald Trump in Perry, Georgia, September 25, 2021. (Photo: REUTERS/Dustin Chambers/File Photo)

                                                                                         A Football Fans’ Lord’s Prayer

                                                                                        (forgiving electoral tomfoolery)

Dear Lord, please forgive his

monkeyshine for he has CTE—

From decades of crashing into

men weighing in at over three! ;

Dear Lord, please forgive his

monkeyshine, he’s being misused—

He’s a broken man and his body

and mind are surgically fused…;

Dear Lord, please forgive his

monkeyshine betraying the ‘race—’

Then send Negroz like him and

Judge Thomas into outer space…;

Dear Lord, please forgive his

monkeyshine, his lying like Boss Tweet—

He’s another Jell-low Puddin Man: At our

Throats—An’ at de Massas’ feet…;

© 2022. 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.

Herschel Walker
Georgia

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