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1st 100 Daze
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
03 Jan 2017
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by BAR poet in residence Raymond Nat Turner

The Trumpacolypse is indeed a new day, notes our poet in residence, but it's the same old era.

1st 100 Daze

Of Boss Tweet/$cammny Hall

by BAR poet in residence Raymond Nat Turner

Something happened

In the Land of Unknown Knowns,

Hanging chads, hacks, leaks and tweets—

Police state where

Those who know, don’t say—

Those who say, don’t know—

Where figures don’t lie, but liars figure, and

100 retired CEOs pig out on ‘pensions’ of

$253,000.00 a month…

High-wire work done,

Clutching his Peace Prize,

The Drone Ranger’s rides into the sunset,

saddlebags dripping snake oil, beer and blood—

Bulging with 30 pieces of silver

Happy Trails to hospitals hit with Hellfires,

Burned babies, dead Muslims, deported Mexicans,

Prosecuted whistleblowers; Happy Trails to habeas corpus, privacy,

Posse Comitatus; and bamboozled Negroz, liberals, labor, leftists—

Left Hopelessly dangling on his warhead…

Something happened…

Dr. Goebbels blushes at the big tent

Two-ringed circus arriving every 4 yrs—

1% pickpockets working crowds

Distracted by clowns, mules, elephants

Flying false-flags, riding Operation Ball of Confusion

Something happened—deja vu—

Boss Tweet/$cammny Hall’s 1st 100 days

Looping like 2,920 of The Drone Ranger’s;

416 weeks of W; 96 months of Slick Willy;

4,380 days of Reaganism; gun-smoke clouds,

Rivers of blood—Jackson’s Trail Of Tears—

400 years unabated death; destruction…

Something happened…

Follow the money—

Not Boss Tweet’s, bully in China shop shtik

Follow the money—

Not claptrap trumped up from his bully pulpit

Follow the money—

‘Draining the swamp’ stocking the cabinet with

Light-fingered fundamentalists, monster green eyes

Fixed on making fruits of our labor their ATM…

Something happened…

Banksters are baaaaaaaackkk—guns to our heads,

filling their Goldman-Sachs!

“This is a stickup, Too Big To Fail II!”

Will Boss Tweet un-muzzle

Hannibal Lecter generals; select sons of

“Dixie” to “look away” from police murders,

Charge battery-operated Uncle Toms with

converting projects to condos and casinos;

reduce 4th Estate to 3rd Reich re-tweeters,

licking boots—instead of hurling shoes?

“Lesser evil” luminaries grow Dem;

“Hold your nose” extremists can’t breathe

through openings for organizing, speaking truth to power—

snouts stuck in the mule’s posterior, moving it ‘left’…

Rip Van Winkles are rising from 8 yrs sleep

Wedging Q-tips between their shutters—

First responders, alert as No-Doz washed

down by buckets of black coffee—

Rising, turning Fox-boxes off, silencing phones, games—

Getting Jehovah—going door-to-door,

Meeting more than four corners, speaking of

Striking at the point of production, shutting things down:

Taking over—

We’re still the ones we’ve been waiting for:

Forward!

Raymond Nat Turner Š 2016 All Rights Reserved

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