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The boos are growing stronger
The boos are lasting longer…
Crescendoing class-war bugle calls—
thundering tsunamis—
from factory floors, from stadiums, from arenas, from
concert halls, bouncing off white supremacist border walls
The boos are growing stronger
The boos are lasting longer…
Lions and elephants roaring, rejecting orange ICE Age rampage. Rejecting bassackwards
Wayback Machine Making America Grate again. Splitting families up in profit-driven
torture centers. Rejecting double-dipping, rights-stripping, grifting, gerrymandered Jim Crow
$campaigns and $elections turning our sweat beads, blisters, callouses into their personal ATMs.
The boos are growing stronger
The boos are lasting longer…
Background vocals for SNAP songs stolen from babies’ growling bellies.
Harmonies for cancer patients’ plug-pulling laments
and dirges of screaming farmers fucked by their Tariff Sheriff arresting
our development at 2 bags of groceries for the price of 6…
The boos are growing stronger
The boos are lasting longer…
Foghorns warning fishing boats ‘bout mass murder on high seas and
War Of The Week. Warning of walking waste, fraud and abuse by
2,000 lb. bomb-worshippers—
Department of Class War on working-class—home and abroad.
The boos are growing stronger
The boos are lasting longer…
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.