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‘Enemy Within’ - People's World
“Political language … is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable “ — George Orwell They are the bloodthirsty! Parasitic. Anti-freedom, fascist, Pedophile, compromised ones. The grifting, gaslighting, big- Lying ones. Way Back Machine, return to the ‘50s —1850s — ones. The Judas Iscariot, Benedict Arnold, billionaire “enemy within” ones.
Psy-Op Satan’s Speech on Capitalist Hill
Squish, squish, squish of blood-soaked jackboots; Red line—red carpet—coagulated on Capitalist Hill. Sharp-tongued choosey beggar. Ethnic cleanser, Psy- Op Satans’s raw sewage rant ran just over an hour … Prince of Polio/Pharaoh of Famine/Psy-Op Satan Stood serpent-like on Capitalist Hill and spewed Venom. He filled millions of FOX-boxes with mis- Information, disinformation, 1/2 truths, Big Lies.
2000 lb. Bombastic Blitzkrieg-Klan Rally on Capitalist Hill
(For Genocide and War-profiteering) The Statue of Liberty weeps into her un- Bombed harbor. She cries, “Send me your Double-amputee orphans. Your newborn babies— Burned to the bone. Your occupation tortured teens. Your breastfeeding mothers and atrophying elders.
We can no longer …
I’m not a nuanced Negro Complicating, Contextualizing, centering, Unpacking, drilling down Inter-sectionally into weeds beneath capitalism’s Hood … Yet, point blank, full stop— I say: We can no longer Afford the rich … We can no longer Afford the rich … And their Wars of the Week! Their bloodletting beheading babies; blistering bodies like hotdogs on exploding hospital grills! Their turning streets of the world into crimson rivers/salt ponds of tears—Their Fattening vampire shareholders...
Hearing! Hearing! Hearing!
It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
United Nations Negroz
Lightweight, portable—wind-powered— United Nations Negroz need no batteries. They run quietly and smoothly; And have small carbon footprints. Like corporations— they are people. Plug them into foundations or situations—like the United Nations—and they’ll run all day and all night … moving mouths with Wall Street/militarist messaging. Wind them up and they’ll go into combat convulsions.
Where woke goes to die and Hitler-lovers come to kill
‘Red State?’‘Blue State?’ Dollar Store? Dungeon? Sidewalk? Supermarket? Shopping Center? School? Church? Subway? Synagogue? Mosque? Knee? Arm? Lone Wolf? ‘Bad Apples?’ “Little Boy?” “Fat Man?” “All options are on the table?” “Manifest Destiny?” Lives under capitalism are cigarette butts beneath boot heels… We wake to War of The Week/Shooting(s) of The Day— or some sub-variant of Violence— We grieve again…at Theft of four Florida Families’ loved ones. Our people. Poor people. Working people.
Government by AI
Government by AI by Raymond Nat Turner / August 13th, 2023 Once again it seems like Lone-star and Sun-shine states jumped the Gun by getting AI governors Had they been a bit more patient; Waited, maybe ten years; They could have gotten governors equipped with Compassion… This article was posted on Sunday, August 13th, 2023 at 8:02am and is filed under Poetry.
Black robe blitzkrieg and Bassackwards Tribesman Thom-ass Clarence ARE the White Supreme Court
by Raymond Nat Turner / July 16th, 2023 Black robe blitzkrieg— was it Down with Brown… and Roe to go— or Down with Roe… and Brown to go? Bassackwards Tribesman, Thom-ass Clarence, switches from Long Dong Silver shaving in his mirror.
Is cruelty Governor Woke Smoke’s superpower?
Hey, amigo, this ain’t Gitmo… We won’t waterboard you.
2 Pentagon Parties: 0 ‘debt ceiling/1% Kabuki Theater
by Raymond Nat Turner / May 28th, 2023 2 Pentagon Parties: 0 ‘debt ceiling’ Both war-profiteers, wheeling and dealing— junk medal-chested generals ever concealing what greasy-thumbed accountants are stealing It’s Mike and Ike Kabuki Theater Where Ol’ Schmo is some smooth operator Insurance-Bank bailout activator— Reducing us to: Passive Spectator… 2 Pentagon Parties: 0 ‘debt ceiling’ “Medicare for ALL?! Why, that’s unappealing— astronomical costs send us reeling!! You must rely solely on...
Paragons of modern American fascism: Two new poems by Raymond Nat Turner
Count Ghouliani’s Grift Shop—government of the rich on display I. 90 proof most matters handled after 2PM. Law partners Jim Beam, Jack Daniels, Johnny Walker Red, et al. High profile firm the renown Scandal, Scandal and Scandalous, LLC… II. No Amos and Andy operation. No lil slow mom-and-pop shop. His Grift Shop’s where big bucks are made on blue pills and other thrills. Parking Permits to Pardons…and 9/11—24/7! Hey, come on in.
F Train Lynching: Papa Cop’s wink and nod
by Raymond Nat Turner / May 14th, 2023 I. Blessed with beautiful voice, and chops for Moonwalking moving trains. Trains and train stations his stages, his concert halls. Smiles, cheers, applause, crowds fed him. He was 14 when death stole the show— danced down his youth, his joy. He was 14 when his Mother—the one he Loved most—was murdered. Plasticity of an un-molded mind: PTSD be- came his dance partner after testifying at his Mother’s murderer’s trial.
The Tennessee Three speak in We
by Raymond Nat Turner / April 23rd, 2023 I. Cherokees “on the road again.” Violently herded West. Ethnically-cleansed on crimson Trail of Tears. Forcibly moved off Tennessee homeland to Oklahoma—Where land acknowledgment ain’t enough… II.
POETRY: The Tennessee Three speak in We
“Alabama got me so upset, Tennessee made me lose my rest…” —Nina Simone, “Mississippi Goddamn” I. Cherokees “on the road again.” Violently herded West. Ethnically-cleansed on crimson Trail of Tears. Forcibly moved off Tennessee homeland to Oklahoma—Where land acknowledgment ain’t enough… II.
Black Agenda Report
Protest at White House (Photo: Elizabeth Frantz/Reuters) Trigger Warning Palestine’s the Answer— What were the Questions? Why the red line in the tan sand—splitting the World into irreconcilable camps? Oppressed- oppressors; Exploited-exploiters; haves-Have nots? Why cherry red moral lights flashing—Demanding Desperate actions? Why siren-like urgency? Squawking shofars? Rallying Anti-genocide guerrillas riding in like Jazz masters— scorched earth improvisers in the moment— Cutting off Choke-points?
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Image: PalestineCampaign.org “To side with the right against the wrong, the weak against the strong, and with the oppressed against the oppressor! here lies the merit, and the one which, of all others seems unfashionable in our day.” —Frederick Douglass 1852 speech “What, to the slave, is the Fourth of July” I.
Black Agenda Report
Joe Biden and Benjamin Netanyahu in Tel Aviv, Israel (Photo: Evan Vucci/AP) By Raymond Nat Turner, BAR Poet-in-Residence Dis-honest Broker (for my friend Farid) Metallic music of shovels; Abrasions on bare hands Digging, digging, digging through twisted bones and busted bricks of buildings.
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Child's funeral in Deir al-Balah, Gaza strip. (Photo: AFP) “You belong to us, body and belongings, and we can dispose of them and do with you as we please.” — Holy Roman Emperor Louis VI in 1343.
Black Agenda Report
By Raymond Nat Turner, Poet-in-Residence 3rd Reich corporate confederate circus 1% pickpockets; pin-headed Hitler-lovers work the crowd… Corporate circus up to old tricks! Red nose, big shoe, swastika shit show- cruel… Capitalist Hill clowns and clownettes — Millionaire jesters— juggling medicine bottles, house keys, children, climate, food, water; While gaslighting, stonewalling, dangling from fiscal cliffs… Death cult clowns/clownettes inhaling helium of hate, brandish double-edged swords...
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Protest sign of the White House with the American and the words "for sale" (Flickr photo / Anne Meador, Cool Revolution) $campaign-$election Absurdum Redux? How’s he running for anything other than Exercise on Lompoc’s or Leavenworth’s yard? Could Boss Tweet apply for Hamlet Cat Catcher II? Village Dog Poop Pickup Specialist I? City bank teller, barista, or fast food worker? Preschool teacher, or principal—minus rib-busting belly laughs?
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Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast / Getty The Devil and HK The Devil just completed his Hitler-Hoover wing of Hell. Largest capital project of his tenure! Koch Bros., Bezos, Harland Crow and Musk money made it happen. The Devil rejoiced when he got his first docent, Donald Rumsfeld! Rumy was known for his known knowns; unknown knowns; smoking gun-mushroom cloud flair for Dr. Goebbels’ Big Lie The Devil’s delighted! He got the AD—Assistant Devil— he’d coveted.
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