ā Behind every great fortune
there is a crime.ā
āHonore de Balzac
This is a STICK-UP!
Hands up! Break your selves!
MORE for the GREEDYā
Less for the needy!
Allow us to introduce ourselves:
Weāre the Department Of Grifter Enrichmentā
No! Weāre Dictators Oligarchs Grabbing Everythingā
Anyway, weāre recent graduates of MSU (Making Shit Up!)
Looting launched weeks ago. Weāre talking
Trillions ā¦
Whereās the flashing lights? Hey, whereās the
Yellow tape emblazoned: CRIME SCENE?
No broken windows ā¦ No crunchy sidewalks ā¦
No eagle-eyed helicopters hovering overhead?
No SWAT? No teargas? No stun-grenades? No zip-ties?
No swollen police presence of George Floyd Summer?
Boys From Brazil-like looters; weāre led by a light-fingered
South African stickup man; An Apartheid repeat offender.
Weāre snatching SNAP, food pantries, Meals On Wheels,
School lunch programsāsnatching growling belliesā bread!
Boys From Brazil-like wreckers, weāre lead by capitalismās
Cruelty cultāsacking Medicare!
Weāre pulling plugs on dialysis machinesācancelling
Cancer treatments and your grandmaās meds for sport!
Boys From Brazil-like bandits; weāre lead by a wild Boer
Holdup man. A nazi-loving/morally bankrupt, spiritual
Pauperā Posing as the worldās richest human. And weāre
Clawing, grabbing at the bulging purse of Social Security!
Capitalismās one long con game ā¦
Our looting is hundreds of years old!
We offer no answers fixing messes capitalismās created.
We do, however, fence fake solutions for nonexistent problems.
Weāre digital death panelsāroving office to office.
We ābreak thingsā called peoples lives!
We solve mass suffering with more mass suffering.
We ease pain with more pain ā¦
We ābreak thingsā called peoples lives! Instead of breaking
Ground for hospitals and clinics offering healthcare for all.
Instead of ground breaking for hammers pounding Go-Go rhythms;
And saws screaming sawdust symphonies, raising roofs Amish-style!
Our menu is simple: Homelessness; Hunger; School Shootings
Du Jour; And Wars of The Week ā¦ We gather weekly āround
The Way Back MachineāWest Wing of the War Houseā
Plotting with white Supreme Courtesans and Capitalist Hill hustlers ā¦
Profits are the great God we answer to! We canāt change ā¦
A lethal piece of orange pyriteā orange wrecking ballā
Emitting lies every nano second is the Buddha we bow to! (This is
As good as it gets. Save yourselves, save the planet from our ravages ā¦)
Ā© 2025. 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.
In this weekās segment, we discuss the impact on the voting rights of Black people if the SAVE Act is signed into law. But we begin with a discussion of an historic vote at the United Nations whichā¦
Kwesi Pratt Jr. is General Secretary of the Socialist Movement of Ghana.
The SAVE Act would require proof of U.S. citizenship to be presented in person in order to register to vote in this country and would disenfranchise millions of people who are currently able to voteā¦
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āWe are not freeing ourselves from centuries of imperialism and colonialism only to be maimed and destroyed by nuclear weapons.ā
