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Short word problems: do the math
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
03 Jun 2026
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Homeless encampment

Work these word problems. 
Work them as if your lives depend on
YOUR correct answers.
YOUR solutions … Because they do:

If 30% of The People say, “No” and
45% say, “Hell No!” to nazi projects
Should we speak of  “approval ratings,” or Dis-
approval ratings, organizing superior numbers?

How much longer can we afford 2,000lb.
Bombs of 1%  parasites plundering treasure, 
spilling blood, impoverishing US, murdering
class sisters, brothers and their babies abroad?

How much longer can we afford amputators,
mutilators, rubble-makers, martyr multipliers, 
life expectancy subtractors; Collateral damage-
civilian casualty creators of War Of The Week?

How much longer can we afford corrupt, greasy-
thumbed ones creating growling bellies, creating 
tarp, tent, cardboard mattress cities beneath bridges
and freeways; Evil minus signs of cruel take-aways?

How much longer can we afford Orange Age crimes 
of lawless leeches? How much longer can we afford
“Drill, baby, drill / Kill, baby kill!” Halloween skies?
How much longer can we afford water from fracked-up rivers?

How much longer can we afford the 1%’s poisonous psy-ops?
How much longer can we afford manicured hands molding poor
‘white’ minds into suicidal Silly Putty $campaigns / Play Dough
$elections every four years?

How much longer can we afford crude chainsaw dances of DOGE:
Department Of Grifter Enrichment; department of dream-smashers?
How much longer can we afford yachts, jets, multiple residences of
a Cruel Reich Cult?

© 2026. 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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