Cut plastic cuffs from
imaginations—
Dream larger
in dire situations…
IMAGINE every cook governing—
every governor cooking up people
puzzles—right livelihood alchemy…
Imagine noble collective leadership
Not repeatedly recycled
depleted uranium mummies buried
in bowels of the War House; Imagine
more than revolving door robots…
Cut plastic cuffs from
imaginations—
Dream larger
in dire situations…
IMAGINE every cook governing—
every governor cooking up people
puzzles—right livelihood alchemy…
Imagine grand collective leadership—
Not white phosphorus ghosts
haunting Capitalist Hill—
Not lawless low Barr, Silly Putty
puppets dangling on dicks of dictators:
Attorney Generals:
Larry E. Williams; Walter Riley; Michael Steven Smith; Heidi Boghosian;
Flint Taylor; Soffiyah Elijah; Fania Davis; Ben Crump; Karen Musalo…
Secretariat of Health and Human Services:
Steffie Woolhandler; Michael Lenoir; Margaret Flowers; Ahimsa Porter Sumchai;
September Williams; Nadia Marsh; Marc Sapir; Priscilla Hindmann; Jill Stein…
Secretariat of Housing and Urban Development:
Nellie Bailey; Wiley Cunningham; Caroll Fife; Lisa Gray-Garcia; Oliver Burke;
Janelle Orsi; Miguel Muteado Silencio…
Secretariat of Agriculture:
Jen Mendoza; Velia Perez; Ruth Faircloth; Tammy Parkes; Dominic Ware;
Malik Yakini; Greg Asbed…
Secretariat of Labor:
Karen Lewis; Sarah Nelson; The Real Clarence Thomas; Brenda Stokley; Cherrie Murphy; Ken Riley; Veena Dubal; Tim Hall; Chris Silvera; Larry Goldbetter; Tim Sheard; Steve Gilbert; Steve Zeltzer; Jack Heyman; Harold Welton; Topaz DuBois…
Secretariat of Education:
Donna Murch; Bill Ayers; Henry Giroux; Betty Olson Jones; Johanna Fernandez; Jonathan Kozol; Kitty Kelly Epstein; Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor; Russell Dale; K.C. Nat Turner…
Administrators of the Environmental Protection Agency:
Tara Houska; Marsha Coleman-Adebayo; Naomi Klein…
Secretariat of Energy:
Madonna Thunder Hawk; Jo Ann Tall; Autumn Peltier; Naelyn Pike; Tokata
Iron Eyes; Antonia Juhasz…
Secretariat of the Treasury:
Rick Wolff; Michael Hudson; Nomi Prins…
Secretariat of Homeland Security:
Leonard Peltier; Pam Africa; Kali Akuno; Ramona Africa; Dequi Kioni-Sadik; Tamika Mallory; Medea Benjamin…
Secretary of Veterans Affairs:
Chip Fitzgerald; Mumia Abu Jamal; Laura Whitehorn; Anne Lamb; Sekou Odinga;
Russell Maroon Shoats; Kevin Cooper; David Gilbert; Ralph Poynter; Carl Dix…
Directors of the Central Intelligence Agency:
Chelsea Manning; Bunnatine "Bunny" H. Greenhouse; Daniel Ellsberg; Reality Winner…
Directors of National Intelligence:
Gerald Horne; Angela Davis; Chris Hedges; Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz…
Secretariat of State:
Assata Shakur; Edward Snowden; Vijay Prashad; Linda Sarsour…
FCC Commissioners:
Amy Goodman; Glen Ford; Davey D Cook; Juan Gonzalez; Jared Ball; David Cay Johnston; Mimi Rosenberg; Robert McChesney; Michael G. Haskins; Thandisizwe Chimurenga…
© 2020. Raymond Nat Turner, The Town Crier. All Rights Reserved.
My Wise Country Cousin on: de MAGnifcent Sebben meetin’
Bet you thank de Sharlitun Possey ridin’ a’gin big news to me?
I tolt you years ago… “Keep yo’ eyes on de Blak Boozewazee!”
Dem korprit Negroz rode in to see Ol’ Blak Schmo an’ Ladee Blu—
To fin’ out jes' whut Tio Tomas an’ de big bosses wan’ ‘em to do…
Dem Negroz rode in barebak an’ bakwuds on dey lil ol’ donkees—
2 hrs. latur dey shufflin’ an’ ‘Han’ Jibin’ lak de Three Monkees…
Ol’ Sharlitun grin, “Now, we don’ wanna take de poleece away—
An’ lawd Jeezus know dat we ain’t about ta mess wit dey pay!”
“Y’all see dis’ lil donkee—he low to de groun’—he mountabull?
Well, we jes’ axin’ dat de poleece promus dey’ll be akountabull…”
He say, “We’ll stop dat millitunt cownrow chik an’ de Mooselum gal!”
Souf Calina's kingmakur say, “Why, dats jes’ why we calt on you, Al…”
Den dey rode off, Cristal halos, bludshot eyes frum ober-indulgin’…
30 pieces ob silbur gleamin’ an’ bran nu saddulbags… bulgin’…
© 2020. Raymond Nat Turner, The Town Crier. All Rights Reserved.
BAR’s poet in residence Raymond Nat Turner is an accomplished performing artist. You can find much more of his work at https://www.youtube.com/user/zigilow
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