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Red Alert...
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
12 Oct 2022
Red Alert...
Image: Ingram Pinn

Red Alert...

A Love Supreme— A Love Supreme —A Love Supreme— First
Nation prayers for Mother Earth’s creatures and gifts… Amassing
spirits, protecting rivers/streams—Our lifeblood… A Love
Supreme— A Love Supreme —A Love Supreme surging seven
generations-deep—Needing new boots on the ground…

A Love Supreme— A Love Supreme —A Love Supreme First
Nation prayers for Mother Earth’s creatures and gifts… Amassing
spirits, protecting rivers/streams—Our lifeblood… A Love
Supreme— A Love Supreme —A Love Supreme surging seven
generations-deep—Needing new boots on the ground… Combatting
dangerous dances/lethal love songs for profits!

If water’s life—capitalism’s death! Death to our
Mother— profaned/poisoned—Her waters weaponized:
fouled Flint’s coffee brown, birthing babies with
brains showing signs of industrial strength damage…
Mississippi’s muddy mocha, unfit to the eye—much less to drink!
The Gulf’s greasy, slimy, mussel, crab, shrimp-killing BP
cesspool— inky class war crime against humanity…
Pennsylvania’s prison aqua, the cancerous, dirty, black devil’s
brew— Fracking fluid stew!

Calling all Climate Marchers!
Calling all Climate Marchers: wean yourselves from methane
promises of cross-dressing fossil fools fluent in Forked
Tongue— Haughty hot air huffers and puffers!

Calling all Climate Marchers!
Calling all Climate Marchers: wean yourselves from solar-powered
prisons/police state ‘visions—’ of organic, orange cotton jump-
suits; of re-cycled rubber sneakers and bamboo baton beatings…

Calling all Climate Marchers!
Calling all Climate Marchers wean yourselves from carbon
capturing corporate ‘compromises—’
Empire protected by solar-powered aircraft carriers and electric
tanks…

© 2022. Raymond Nat Turner, The Town Crier. All Rights Reserved.
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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