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The Karma of Kap or curse of capitalism??
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
21 Feb 2024
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Kaepernick Jazz art
Artist: Christa Cassano

The Karma of Kap or

curse of capitalism??

“There is nothing permanent except change.”

-Heraclitus

Gridiron gods, again, reminded 49er fans

best team; and Xs and Os can’t

Overcome

Karma of Kap/curse of capitalism …

Gridiron gods, again, reminded 49er fans

best team; and Xs and Os don’t

White-out spirit of he who kneeled on the

Shield … Shined red/gold sunlight on slaughter

Gridiron gods reminded 49er fans

Tears … in beers won’t white-out spirit of he who

Kneeled on the shield— showered the world with wet, cold

Wikileaks … Washing blu klux klan scales from slumbering eyes

Gridiron gods reminded 49er fans

neither fantasies … nor big bets white-out spirit of he who

Kneeled on the shield—revealed sudden deaths over time at

hands of trigger-happy terrorists … playing “Hands up don’t shoot!”

Gridiron gods, again, reminded 49er fans

best team; and Xs and Os can’t erase spirit of he who

Kneeled on the shield— and revealed NFL-Plantation Nation

concealed in song of  “Bombs bursting in air/rockets’ red glare”

Gridiron gods, again, reminded 49er fans

best team; and Xs and Os can’t conceal concussion-collusion—

Show of force flyovers/Pentagon pimp partnerships with blood-

thirsty billionaires owning Sunday/stealing half of Black History Month

Gridiron gods will … one day … remind Kansas City fans of

Un-ceded, ancestral, traditional territory of Kansa, Osage, Otos

and others— of pleas to scorched earth, oil-drenched owners of

Flaming fossil fuel fortunes to:

Drop

the

'Chop’

zip lips of beer-sodden settlers farting faux-Native noises—

And play the name-game—

with movements that created Commanders…

© 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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