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MOVE Tulsa to Gaza…
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
02 Jun 2021
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MOVE Tulsa to Gaza…
MOVE Tulsa to Gaza…

The Mass Shooting Of The Day—
this time was in San Jose…
Do you know the way to San Jose?

MOVE Tulsa to Gaza from
Hiroshima-Nagasaki and you’ll
find a Trail Of Tears—the sanguinary 
Long And Winding Road of plausible 
Deniability; and you’ll
Know The Way To San Jose…The way
the Du Ponts' gunpowder profits from
white settler-Indian Country real estate
symbiotically set the stage scarlet so the
Killing can never end…

MOVE Tulsa to Gaza from
Hiroshima-Nagasaki and you’ll
find a Trail Of Tears—the sanguinary 
Long And Winding Road of plausible 
Deniability; and you’ll
Know The Way To San Jose…The way
a disintegrating empire celebrates snipers
over scholars; bombers over builders—a dis-
integrating empire whose fastest growing 
population is the naturalized Unhoused Tribe…

MOVE Tulsa to Gaza from
Hiroshima-Nagasaki and you’ll
find a Trail Of Tears—the sanguinary 
Long And Winding Road of plausible 
Deniability; and you’ll
Know The Way To San Jose…The way
a disintegrating empire is infested with
Merchants of death; chillingly brutal, blood-thirsty thugs in Brooks Brothers suits—lapel
pin war-profiteers threatening the planet! And
you’ll find Wall Street, theWar House, the White
Supreme Court and Lynch Mobs on Capitalist
Hill are a Rubik Cube lubricated by bloodshed…

MOVE Tulsa to Gaza from
Hiroshima-Nagasaki and you’ll
find a Trail Of Tears—the sanguinary 
Long And Winding Road of plausible 
Deniability; and you’ll
Know The Way To San Jose…The way
a disintegrating empire—a mass murder 
Machine—remembers maudlin myths about
itself; Sending chills down its stainless steel
spine; Raising hair triggers on its white
phosphorus-depleted uranium neck—With
sentimental Super Bowl flyovers like those that
Rename other peoples’ babies ‘Collateral Damage’

MOVE Tulsa to Gaza from
Hiroshima-Nagasaki and you’ll
find a Trail Of Tears—the sanguinary 
Long And Winding Road of plausible 
Deniability; and you’ll
Know The Way To San Jose…The way
a disintegrating empire regurgitates Dr. 
Goebbels, churning pixilated pulp fiction
origin stories, where Slavery and Genocide
are nuclear-tipped index fingers to pursed lips…

© 2021. 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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