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Operation Kool-Aid: 2yr Long PSYOP AKA $campaigns & $elections…
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
17 Aug 2016
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by BAR poet in residence Raymond Nat Turner

In the long presidential campaign, a racist clown can run a war criminal can win. With eighty-some days till election day our poet in residence surveys the electoral landscape.

Operation Kool-Aid: 2yr Long PSYOP
AKA $campaigns & $elections…

by BAR poet in residence Raymond Nat Turner

Would we let Jel-Low Puddin’ Man

Bartend our daughters’ Quinceañeras,

Bat Mitzvahs or Sweet Sixteen sets—

Why do we guzzle corporate Kool-Aid?

Why do we eat up e coli campaign promises?

Why smoke crack chants, U-S-A,U-S-A,U-S-A

Narcotizing death rattle of empire biting the dust?

Why are we hypnotized by Parkinson saber rattling?

Why buy the GROSS National Product of death?

Is it because head-fixers, morale mechanics, bullhorn

brigades, loudspeaker teams, echo chamber crews, lob

psychological smoke bombs jamming our brain waves

with fear, followed by loud instructions to surrender?

“Another right-wing rebel’s hat’s in the ring; a bogey-

man might run; but a war criminal can win; Iowa’s five

weeks away!” Are $campaigns & $elections trailers to

Sequels: Lethal Weapon .45 or 2-yIs it because head-fixers, morale mechanics, bullhorn

brigades, loudspeaker teams, echo chamber crews, lob

psychological smoke bombs jamming our brain waves

with fear, followed by loud instructions to surrender?

“Another right-wing rebel’s hat’s in the ring; a bogey-

man might run; but a war criminal can win; Iowa’s five

weeks away!” Are $campaigns & $elections trailers to

Sequels: Lethal Weapon .45 or 2-year-long lobotomies?

Is it because real votes were cast leaden long ago, polling

places below balconies of motels, in book depositories, on

grassy knolls, above stages in ballrooms, in kitchen pantries

of hotels, Mississippi driveways, Chicago bedrooms, ballots

called ‘wet work’ …retarding revolution decades, centuries...?

Imagine John Lennon coaching Cultural Workers; Imagine Malcolm

Mentoring movements in his 90s; King counseling anti-war activists;

Medgar mentoring Mississippi Rising, Imagine a sixty-something, real

Chicago Community organizer—not named Lucy Parsons…

Raymond nat Turner is an acclaimed bicoastal poet and performance artist. You can find more of his work at http://uspsurgejazz.com
Raymond Nat Turner © 2016 All Rights Reserved

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