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Thursday, October 23, 2025

DID YOU SEE AN INFANTILE, JUVENILE FLIGHT OF FANCY?

by Raymond Nat Turner


"The List Is Long" by Nick Anderson


Did you see signs by victims of 

One Big Beautiful Bank Job

Showing up in mighty millions, 

Flexing Power Of The People?


Did you see frightened juvenile, AI-generated content—

In response?

Did you see the fecal Führer’s fascist flight of fancy—the

Diapered dictator dropping dreck, Making America Grate Again?


Did you see them go from Government Shutdown 

To government shit-down—lousy, loose stool 

Luftwaffe flooding the Zone with elephant excrement—

Making America Grate Again?


Did you see power of the numerically mighty People

Scare fascists shitless—into fertilizing

New crops of activists, militants and revolutionaries

Growing robust—exponentially and urgently!



Raymond Nat Turner is a NYC poet; Black Agenda Report's Poet-in-Residence; and founder/co-leader of the jazz-poetry ensemble UpSurge!NYC.