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Love My Black Job
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
11 Sep 2024
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2020 Protest speaker

Love my Black Job—
Black Student Union Job!
Hired at L.A. City College
As “The Peoples Poet!”

Love my Black Job— opening
For Baldwin on the football field
Seven or eight thousand pairs of
Ears on loan!

Love my Black Job— had a lil
Following—but learned, in time, what I
Didn’t know was enough to get People
Killed.

Love my Black Job —ensconced in Jazz
Cats’ world of  ‘sheddin’  as breathing;
Hooked on their carrot-celery juice, clean
Vegetarian diets 


Love my Black Job —heard an Angel
From Bombingham—and caught a case of
German materialism—got
Dialectical and historical ‘bout things Black 


Love my Black Job —an African-American
Employee of IBM (Italian Business Men)—
Associate of a prominent NY crime family
Promoted me: “The Town Crier!”

Love my Black Job — 104 year-old Jewish
Woman taught me meditation in her Manhattan
Haunts— bakery/coffee shop—where she
Posted up, entourage in tow, and held court daily

Love my Black Job—at the Schomburg—Standing
On Langston’s ashes; Getting one last photo with
Amiri—the other Jersey Boy I followed fan-boyishly
Coast to coast!

Love my Black Job— 2016 tenure— rebutting Boss Tweet’s
Blitzkrieg! MAGAt team 140-character-fecal explosions—all
Caps! Tortured my friends into fetal positions—or sent them
Scurrying to put passports in order 


Love my Black Job— when Duopoly singers show up teaching
Dead end $campaign/$election songs; And stiff, wooden, 2/4
Dances they call ‘Democracy’ — sans Socialist, Communist,
Labor parties— Sidelined and silenced 
like the lambs 


Love my Black Job— Last Days of Pompeo; low Barr
Bible beatdowns. Flash-bang, baton, teargas punctuated!
Love my Black Job doing what Douglass said do—to
Covert clown/acrobats dangling from a dictator’s warhead!

Love my Black Job— defeat Boss Tweet elite— MAGAt
Budapest biting the body politic! M-pox poisoned Gremlin
Grifter. Asset whose addled brain’s eaten away by wet dreams:
Playing Pinochet— 1st 100 Daze— of Day One 


© 2024. 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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