CODE RED!!

Raymond Nat Turner

Calling all street heat shoe leather legislators
Calling all pavement policymakers bored by the bigtop: clean coal

clowns; fossil fools; net zero acrobats; carbon
jugglers…Bored by greasy-thumbed grifters and jingoist
gangsters; Bored by junk metal-chested generals disguised
as donkeys inside elephants Tethered to tits on Wall Street’s
bull… Blocking! Stalling! Gaslighting! Waging war by other names…

Calling all street heat shoe leather legislators
Calling all pavement policymakers bored by the bigtop: tired of 2/4

Dancers dancing the Limbo from bended knees;
Tired of them spinning spineless legislation swaddled in
rectangular rags reaching across their arid aisle and
Externalizing excrement. Leaving dung-splattered streets to
3 monkeys who See No Oil; Hear No Coal; Speak of No Gas as evil…

Calling all street heat shoe leather legislators Calling all pavement policymakers… Who’ll stop the circus from sullying our names with climate crime? Who’ll say their names their Wall Street gang names reconnecting them to climate crimes? Who’ll say Superstorm Chevron?
Nor’ easter Exxon; Tsunami Shell?
And who’ll say Blackened bird BP?

Calling all street heat shoe leather legislators
Calling all pavement policymakers who may or
may not remember the Arab Spring; Remember Occupy lingo “1%”/“99%.” Remember knitted brows; Remember putting forehead to problems
created by person Hoods aka corporate kings and queens…

Calling all street heat shoe leather legislators
Calling all pavement policymakers recall rubber
bullet, plastic cuff, bloody, broken bone, stolen eyeball- tooth trauma…Recall draconian sentences required to arrest killer cops; wrench slavers statues from pedestals; Rechristen schools, streets, parks, plazas, teams; Retire Unca Ben, Aunt Jemima with stars and bars at NASCAR

Calling all street heat shoe leather legislators
and scholars
Calling all pavement policymakersand professors… Study resistance. Major in mass action. Your gait, your posture’s perfect like ours once were

Matriculate 2020-like. And defend dissertations entitled: “Fossil Fuels, Force and Deception of The Corporate State

University Of The Streets…”

Raymond Nat Turner is Black Agenda Report’s poet in residence and an accomplished performing artist. You can find much more of his work at upsurgejazz.com