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“Behind every great fortune there is a crime.” |
—Honoré de Balzac

I’m not a nuanced

Negro

Complicating,

Contextualizing, centering,

Unpacking, drilling down

Inter-sectionally into 

weeds beneath capitalism’s

‘Hood …

Yet, point blank,

full stop— I say:

We can no longer

Afford the rich …

We can no longer

Afford the rich …

And their Wars of the

Week! Their bloodletting beheading babies;

blistering bodies like hotdogs on exploding 

hospital grills! Their turning streets of the world

into crimson rivers/salt ponds of tears—Their

Fattening vampire shareholders profits Q1-Q4!

We can no longer

Afford the rich …

And their School Shootings du Jour served

in absurd solutions! Like strapping

Teachers in paper-starved; pencil-depleted

classrooms! Classrooms of growling belly symphonies;

Classrooms prostrate beneath profits of High Priests of Violence!

We can no longer

Afford the rich …

And their champagne-caviar frivolity—Forgetting how many 

Houses they have—while tarps and tents are popping up like

pastel mushroom clouds … And the capitalist cancer of card-

board mattresses metastasizes … Skid Rows across the country …

We can no longer

Afford the rich …

And their $campaigns and $elections infesting

Capitalist Hill with larcenous lobbyists, sleazy

senators, corrupt congress members. And their

stuffing White Supreme Court slots with bought and

Bossed black-robed klansmen—Tali-banning abortion—

Otherwise partnering with the War House’s genocidal geriatrics

We can no longer

Afford the rich …

And their bomb trains hurtling over rickety tracks encircling

our homes! Their chemical warfare/fiery explosions/flaming

faucets! Their exploding wells. Their weaponized water poisoning

Our rivers/oceans, pumping plastic/lead into our children’s brains

We can no longer

Afford the rich …

And their supply-chain fairytales for food price-gouging …

Their class war on poor working-class children of Africa—

Their bloody monkey business extracting coltan and cobalt

sweat beads powering PCs and EVs for the comfortable ones

We can no longer

Afford the rich …

And their standing armies of strikebreakers; free speech

suppressors; freedom of assembly bashers— 1st and 4th

Amendment redactors … Truncheon-taser-wielding thugs 

Draining city and county coffers …

We can no longer

Afford the rich …

And must disarm them:

Snatch our

Minds from their bloody hands—

And announce , "Normal don't live

Here no mo’, Mr. Mutha-Fukkka, 

And Business As Usual took off

running—moment he heard our

Our footsteps!"

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