“Laws grind the poor and rich men rule the law”
— Oliver Goldsmith
“What does the Tao have to do with anything? Are you kidding?”
Epstein-class—pedophile protectors—RICCO racketeers agree
to pee on survivors. Deploy entire capitalist state apparatus coming
at us: D. C., Cali, Chicago, Pacific, Caribbean, Canada, Greenland!
Depends on nothing, does not change
operates everywhere, free from danger
Mother- of the universe—We didn’t have
a name for it—but she called it the Tao.
Keeps to the Mother- fed by the Mother-
source of all being; life and death are the
same—We didn’t have
a name for it—but she called it the Tao.
Multiple meanings include ‘way,’ ‘path,’ ‘road,’
‘doctrine,’ ‘principle.’ Undifferentiated, yet complete.
soundless, formless, existing before heaven and earth—
We didn’t have a name for it—but she called it the Tao.
Kamikaze pilot crashing into committee hearing—burn
book in hand. Firing triggering rounds at survivors’ scars;
bootlicking, brown-nosing, on behalf of apex predators—
We didn’t have a name for it—but she called it the Tao.
Talentless student of Theatre of the Absurd, contesting every word—
stonewalling, gaslighting, sowing wild quotes, burn book notes at
child scapegoats, like secondhand smoke—
We didn’t have a name for it—but she called it the Tao.
Ball-less Roy Cohn. Consigliere believing JD’s Junkyard Dog,
rather than Juris Doctor. Degree granted by corrupt, defunct
university of sole client?—We didn’t have a name for it—
but she called it the Tao.
What does it take to get a disbarment date in the Sunshine State?
Empire State disbarred J6-inciter, election worker-harasser, Count
Ghouliani. Golden State disbarred loony theorist, J6-agitator and
former Thom-ass Clarence law clerk, Eastman … And some say
MAGA means Make Attorneys Go Away—
We didn’t have a name for it—but she called it the Tao.
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.
