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Find me another 11,780 votes?
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
16 Sep 2026
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Donald Trump

Find me another 11,780 votes?
Resurrection of old questions:
How many jelly beans in a jar, 
How many bubbles in a bar of soap?

Heads we win, tails you lose with
6 White Supremacist Courtesans of capital in coal tar-dyed robes,
confirming Frankenstein-scarred, gerrymandered maps. 
Calling passport, birth certificate, drivers license ID square dances
over spiked hurdles and flaming hoops to jump through. 
And abracadabra, presto — poof — 1/3 of polling places 
Gone!

Long lines snake like ebony rivers of resistance  
wrapping around blocks four times and into
8 hour waits in the ‘hood; versus 15 minutes at most
in milky parts of town?

Postal class siblings, beloved letter carriers,
converted into weapons seizing right-sized envelopes;
smudged barcode; misplaced number; check mark instead of X,
X instead of check mark — mark Herculean efforts null and void?

The real question is and has always been: will 300 million of us
Allow a tiny remote-controlled cult to continue weaponizing
$campaigns and $elections, enabling their stealing and killing 
in our names?

May our Vote Brigades overcome crooked charades
May we arrive — 3x5 — in fifteen passenger vans
dubbed Vote Mobiles?
May we get it done and make it FUN with Vote Floats and
bands blaring joyous Reggae Music. May we build broader,
sustained, organization with liberation consciousness for job ONE?


© 2026. 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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