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Regime Change Coming Home?
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
08 May 2019
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Pompeo and Barr
Mike Pomeo and William Barr in their respective policy environments

Limbo!

How low can we go—

Barr is set so low

in its swamp draining

elephantine donkey dung;

We straddle razor blades

between reich/revolution:

Spinal Solution for the

Fall

of

Rome

…when’s regime

change coming home?

Day-o,

day-o,

day-o!

Last days of Pompeo—

daylight’s coming and

We wanna smash Rome,

where lion’s shares of

wealth is Pentagon with

the wind beneath F-16

wings and other such

Lethal junk machines

Somewhere there’s a place

for us, beyond Boss Tweet’s

blitzkrieg and jousting with

Hurricane Harvey and

Super Storm Sandy and

windmills, solar panels, unleaded water,

un-poisoned fruit—existential threats of

Socialism and peace…Somewhere, some

Day there’s this Shangri-La of work, leisure,

Love, health, homes, books our trillions paid for—

Thousands of times over…

© 2019. Raymond Nat Turner, The Town Crier. All Rights Reserved.

Raymond Nat Turner is an accomplished poet and performing artist, and an official of the National Writers Union. Find more of his work at http://upsurgejazz.com

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