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“Our democracy:” Dictatorship of death merchants in bipartisan Brooks Brothers suits…
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
06 Oct 2021
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“Our democracy:”  Dictatorship of death merchants in bipartisan Brooks Brothers suits…
“Our democracy:” Dictatorship of death merchants in bipartisan Brooks Brothers suits…

“Our democracy:”

Dictatorship of death merchants in bipartisan Brooks Brothers suits…

“Our democracy:”

dead-eyed Draculas drunk on debate with

warlord Werewolves over crimson champagne…

Soulless, 3/5 human, mascots for person-

Hoods…Walking war crimes with white phosphorus

dripping from their lips, as they celebrate body counts

and stock market blips…

“Our democracy:”

five-sided pyramid schemes—invisible hands

of Halliburton-Boeing types sliding up roasted

rumps of sleazy senators and moving their

Filibustering mouths with more

War bills thru claptrap committees debating

Bombers/drones V. Carriers/subs; As millions

snore cold cardboard dreams—collateral damage

of the 1%’s lucrative, bassackwards… Terror on War…

Creating combat zones world-wide; carving our planet

up for profits…

“Our democracy:”

Star-Spangled symphonies of slam-slam-slam;

thew-thew-thew; ka-ching, ka-ching, ka-ching

loops of heavy metal music…Artillery fire, machine

gun spittle for blue blooded, bloodthirsty, shareholders

Who think nothing of slaughtering tens of thousands of

children, women and men like caged chickens, cows and

pigs for profits…

“Our democracy:”

junk metal-chested Joint Chiefs of Chaos; walking

Crimes against humanity; Pentagon pimp architects

of misery and migration

Who speak Sanction-nese— translating into tiny

navels, sunken into tiny spines of Buddha bellies—

Bellies growling like wild dogs for rice, leafy green

vegetables, red and purple fruits withheld by the

Bloodthirsty ones in bipartisan Brooks Brothers suits…

 

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

Former forklift driver/warehouse worker/janitor, 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:  

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