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Ruling-class Remedies
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
18 Mar 2020
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Ruling-class Remedies
Ruling-class Remedies

If you’re feeling exceptionally feverish 
or feverishly exceptional
pull a tight-fitting, cherry red MAGAT
cap over your forehead and eyes. Tight
on your temples and clean coal compress.
White phosphorus poultices work wonders
if your temperature’s hotter than a Hellfire 
Missile: $110,000 each… 

Self-quarantine and waterboard yourself
several times an hour; $campaigns and
$elections and stress positions work too.
You can use enhanced
interrogation techniques until you’re
dry coughing and screaming, “It’s a 
Chinese hoax!”

Hydrate yourself with fracking fluid or
crude oil—or simply
put a predator drone under your pillow;
Suck on a nuke. And F-35 exhaust will
scorch phlegm from your respiratory
tract—but wrap your home in plastic 
sheeting and seal it with duct tape…

Remain calm, you’re safe.
There’s a wall to your West. 
And boots are on the ground
slogging over shit-hole countries.
Remember, bases ring the 
Globe. Count bases if you’re
experiencing difficulty getting 
to sleep. Play war games—or
Practice military exercises…

Social-distance yourself from
anyone sneezing, spraying tiny
droplets of healthcare for all—
or contagious germs for housing
the unhoused— or living wages!

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

 

Indiana Guaidó 

Indiana Guaidó
Norte Americano 
Coming out of Shadow— 
Wall Street wine caves,
crystal chandeliers of
the champagne, caviar
Cayman Island crowd
as self-proclaimed savior

Indiana Guaidó
Norte Americano 
Coming out of Shadow—
dragging rusty links of
the Iron Lady’s chains
as an old commercial for
cheap ghetto wine repeats:
“Don’t let the smooth taste
fool you…”

Indiana Guaidó
Norte Americano 
Coming out of Shadow—
leader lab’s handpicked
Hoosier, battery-operated
boy wonder—first openly
hostile enemy of health-
care for ALL

Indiana Guaidó
Norte Americano 
Coming out of Shadow—
another pleasant plastic face,
another new neoliberal kid on 
the block—like the Drone Ranger— 
Another buttoned-down thug
tethered to Wall Street…

© 2019. 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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