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Ask your doctor if Klobuchar is Right for you
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
04 Mar 2020
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Ask your doctor if Klobuchar is Right for you
Ask your doctor if Klobuchar is Right for you

“Klobuchar may cause
Serious side effects
including dry mouth, blindness,
deafness, recurring nightmares
and suicidal thoughts…
Don’t use Klobuchar if
You’re allergic to TARP,
white phosphorus, depleted
uranium, cluster munitions,
sanctions, surges, ghost detainees,
enhanced interrogation, coups, or
boots on the ground…
Klobuchar may not be right for
you, if you require clean water,
clean air, universal healthcare,
affordable housing, free education—or—
Peace…”
—Dr. Jekyll Couchman

Children caged in concentration camps,
crying yourselves to sleep on fractured
fairytales; Ask your doctor, is Klobuchar
Right for you?

Unhoused women and children, curled up
on cardboard mattresses, temperatures in
the teens—wind chill single digit-feel—Ask
your doctor, is Klobuchar right for you?

Extrajudicial murders, metastasized into
Three Monkey militarism; The War of the
Week—ask your doctor, is Klobuchar right
for it?

Nonstop psy-op $campaign/$election
symptoms of decaying capitalism—
Ask your doctor, is Klobuchar right for
Them?

© 2020. Raymond Nat Turner, The Town Crier. All Rights Reserved.

My Wise Country Cousin on 
Unca Jim an’ de Dems in de
Palmeddle State

by Raymond Nat Turner, BAR Poet-in-Residence

Son, you ax me de diffrunz ‘tween Norf Calina an’ Souf?
Well, read mah lips an’ take it strait out ob mah mouf…
De diffrunz ’tween de two Calinas ‘bout a hunnit years
Why, Negroz in Souf Calina still got cotton in dey ears…
Yes, suh, Dem Souf Calina Negroz has got a lot to lurn—
An’ I’m wureed de mastur techur Unca Jim Clyburn…

Now, considur dis: Souf Calina where de Cibil War start—
crakkkers boastin’ dey desindents ob Gen. Bowreegart!
Son, Souf Calina wus de fus slave terris state to seksede—
Dey fired de fus shots, an’ got to be de fus ones to bleed…
Wus crackkkers in Souf Calina dat launch de Cibil War—
An’ Dem terris-trayturs got nurv enuf to still be sore!

Boy, what you really axin’ me is, “How’d Unca Jim do it—
De morticians drainin’ Schmo Bidun’s embalmin’ fluid?”
Unca Jim Clyburn deliber fo’ de korrupt, korprit DNC—
But don’ gib a possum’s ass ‘bout lil Negroz lak you an’ me!
Lawd, look lak we’s goin’ backwurds—fas—an’ we’s in dangur—
Negroz danglin' on de dicks ob Bidun an’ de Drone Rangur!

© 2020. Raymond Nat Turner, The Town Crier. All Rights Reserved.

BAR’s poet in residence Raymond Nat Turner is an accomplished performing artist. You can find much more of his work at http://upsurgejazz.com .

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