Dis-honest Broker, by Raymond Nat Turner

Metallic music of shovels; Abrasions again on bare hands

Digging, digging, digging through twisted bones and

busted bricks of buildings. To backpacks, blankets, baby

body parts to rescue tiny arms and legs emitting whispers…

 

Obese bulldozers munching homes and olive trees;

Settlers snacking on bones of the evicted.

Aquifer flooded with sea water and sewage are now G-

Rated nightmares; And matter not to NFL, NBA bi-partisans

 

Forked tongue, Dis-honest broker, 

fluent in the ancient language of

Genocide 

Trots out tattered tropes for terror. Swears another Offal Office

oath on War House Bible—bathed in blood of 10s of millions—

Trail of Tears to Wounded Knee; Tulsa to Hiroshima; Korea to

Vietnam to Afghanistan…

 

Riddler/Joker—Dis-honest broker:

“You have a right to…” 

Be an aircraft carrier on the desert

Acting as a weapons lab conducting

Trade shows; Disguised as democracy

Acting as apartheid state; Concealing

Third Reich real estate practices—Go on

Step on the gas—and “Mow the grass!”

 

“You have a right to…” Quell them/Shell them!

Bombard them/Boneyard them!

Snipe them/Wipe them! Un-home them/Pogrom them!

Expel them/Farewell them!

 

“You have a right to…” Strangulate them/Annihilate them!

Bomb roads they’re instructed to travel— And let them all

Eat hot lead and gravel!

 

“You have a right to…” Kill them one-a-day… for years—

Daily… for decades… Until bloody bootprints become

Normal as “Ironclad!!!!”             Normal as Baghdad??

 

“You have a right to…” 22 days of carnage; provided

you Madison Avenue it: “Operation Caste-Lead!!!!”

“You have a right to…” Step on the gas—and

“Mow the grass!“

 

“You have a right to…” 51 days of slaughter—

just market it as: “Operation Protective Edge!!!!”

“You have a right to…” Step on the gas—and

“Mow the grass!”

 

“You have a right to…” Dr. Goebbels’ white phosphorus

prescriptions for human animals holding human shields;

Holding hostages; Holding hospital hideouts; Holding

House keys—for…                          3/4 of a Century…

 

© 2023. Raymond Nat Turner, The Town Crier. All Rights Reserved.

Metallic music of shovels; Abrasions again on bare hands

Digging, digging, digging through twisted bones and

busted bricks of buildings. To backpacks, blankets, baby

body parts to rescue tiny arms and legs emitting whispers…

 

Obese bulldozers munching homes and olive trees;

Settlers snacking on bones of the evicted.

Aquifer flooded with sea water and sewage are now G-

Rated nightmares; And matter not to NFL, NBA bi-partisans

 

Forked tongue, Dis-honest broker, 

fluent in the ancient language of

Genocide 

Trots out tattered tropes for terror. Swears another Offal Office

oath on War House Bible—bathed in blood of 10s of millions—

Trail of Tears to Wounded Knee; Tulsa to Hiroshima; Korea to

Vietnam to Afghanistan…

 

Riddler/Joker—Dis-honest broker:

“You have a right to…” 

Be an aircraft carrier on the desert

Acting as a weapons lab conducting

Trade shows; Disguised as democracy

Acting as apartheid state; Concealing

Third Reich real estate practices—Go on

Step on the gas—and “Mow the grass!”

 

“You have a right to…” Quell them/Shell them!

Bombard them/Boneyard them!

Snipe them/Wipe them! Un-home them/Pogrom them!

Expel them/Farewell them!

 

“You have a right to…” Strangulate them/Annihilate them!

Bomb roads they’re instructed to travel— And let them all

Eat hot lead and gravel!

 

“You have a right to…” Kill them one-a-day… for years—

Daily… for decades… Until bloody bootprints become

Normal as “Ironclad!!!!”             Normal as Baghdad??

 

“You have a right to…” 22 days of carnage; provided

you Madison Avenue it: “Operation Caste-Lead!!!!”

“You have a right to…” Step on the gas—and

“Mow the grass!“

 

“You have a right to…” 51 days of slaughter—

just market it as: “Operation Protective Edge!!!!”

“You have a right to…” Step on the gas—and

“Mow the grass!”

 

“You have a right to…” Dr. Goebbels’ white phosphorus

prescriptions for human animals holding human shields;

Holding hostages; Holding hospital hideouts; Holding

House keys—for…                          3/4 of a Century…

 

 

© 2023. Raymond Nat Turner, The Town Crier. All Rights Reserved.

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