My two new lil nieces: Session 1 Lesson 1
“And you very small persons will not have to die
Infant eyes fixed on big colorful pages—
A’s for Anti-Black Arm, crooked, tatted, crushing windpipe
I’s for ICE cold-blooded killers hunting families trapped on borders
P’s for Presto! Planted ‘evidence!’ ’Puttin cases on’ people disappearing ‘up the river’
U’s for Useless in Uvalde—lovely children and their teachers needlessly died…
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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 and PayPal .
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