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enemy within
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
08 Oct 2025
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“Political language … is designed to make lies sound truthful and
murder respectable “   — George Orwell

They are the bloodthirsty! Parasitic. Anti-freedom, fascist,
Pedophile, compromised ones. The grifting, gaslighting, big-
Lying ones. Way Back Machine, return to the ‘50s —1850s — ones.
The Judas Iscariot, Benedict Arnold, billionaire “enemy within” ones.

They are the thirty pieces of silver ones, camouflaged in stars and
Stripes! Red, white, and blue-wrapped ones — wholly-owned —
Bought and bossed. The remote-controlled ones — rolling red carpet
On bent knee — servicing strongmen. They are: “The Enemy Within.”

They are the enemy within warring on the working-class! Reich-cult.
Sadist bullies dispatching platoons of masked goons! The worst of the
Worse! J6-confederate-felons, flooding factories, fields and streets —
Redacting 1st amendment — Erasing 4th, 13th, 14th, 15th freedoms …

They are chainsaw-brandishing bandits. Looting, uprooting, destroying things
That work! Thieves turning fruits of our labor into personal ATMs.  Waste,
Fraud and Abuse disguised as Department Of Grifter Enrichment — DOGE.
Rejecting 99 Cents Store solutions — like mirrors — for detecting themselves.

They are an ethno nationalist food truck serving poisonous menu of misery: 
School Shooting Du Jour! War Of The Week! Jobless, Homeless, Hungry 
Government Shutdown Gumbo. Medical Neglect Noodles. Post-Constitutional,
Police State Pork Fried ICE. Doom and gloom, dark, death and destruction desserts.

They are warfare state “Drill, baby, drill!” dinosaurs shaking down with teargas, 
Pepper-spray, rubber-bullet reign, places we live and love. Fox-box foot soldiers
Prancing like peacocks. Transforming our cities into ‘training grounds’ 
Instead of solar-paneled, windmill wonderlands running armadas of electric busses.

WE are the ones we’ve been waiting for! Robust resisters riding in on white horses 
Named Mutual Aid. United Front, Mass Movement Mamas and Papas. Department
Of Solidarity. Door-knocking neighbors, meeting more than four corners. WE are the 
Ones we’ve been waiting for! Street Heat Senators/Shoe Leather Legislators muscling 
Up movements! Robust resisters refusing to slip on elephant excrement-donkey dung — 
Bipartisan — billionaire bullshit!

© 2025. 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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