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Reclaiming Our Time for the Planet
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
03 Nov 2021
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Reclaiming Our Time for the Planet

                                                                    Reclaiming our time

                                                                       for the Planet…

 

Grand Canyon bathtub rings telling

us the Colorado River’s dropped over

150 feet. Twenty years of drought—And

A wildfire a week; A nor’easter; superstorm;

hurricane; tornado; typhoon; And

tsunami over blackened birds, slimy, gooey,

tar balled waters—obligatory oil spills over

Corporate propaganda cycles—A delicious

recipe for disaster…

Whisker-sized particulate matter’s winning

Air superiority in pumpkin skies. Skies

Bees buzzed decks from; Skies hummingbirds

and butterflies hung out in.

Skies crows dropped from, jamming with

pigeons and spying on stashing/noshing

squirrels. A place you could get a gallon of

unleaded water that smelled drinkable…

This was before Roundup Ready corporate

propaganda cycles ejaculating Satan’s sperm

into our aquifers. Before prioritizing our

Friends by stages/types of cancer they suffer…

No need for nuance here—let’s say it simply—

say it plainly:

the kettle’s been on the back burner whistling

Frantically for decades—Warning of capitalist

immolation…And the world can’t wait…

The world can’t wait…Bassackwards…

for 21st century technology to catch

up with 17th century ideology—can’t

wait in perpetuity on old

mush-mouthed men’s mumblings on markets—

Seventeenth century

catechisms covering 21st century climate crimes…

The world can’t wait…

for more inflated claptrap; more cleverly crafted

lies—more methane promises huffed and puffed—

Killing us softly with their carbon…

 

© 2021. Raymond Nat Turner, The Town Crier. All Rights Reserved.

Former forklift driver/warehouse worker/janitor, Raymond Nat Turner is a NYC poet;  BAR's Poet-in-Residence; and founder/co-leader of the jazz-poetry ensemble UpSurge!NYC. You can Vote for his work at:  

GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/the-town-criers-big-tooth-fund

PayPal: paypal.me/towncrierRNT

 

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