Regime Change Coming Home?

Limbo!
How low can we go—
Barr is set so low
in its swamp draining
elephantine donkey dung;
We straddle razor blades
between reich/revolution:
Spinal Solution for the
Fall
of
Rome
…is regime change
coming home?

Day-o,
day-o,
day-o!
Last days of Pompeo—
daylight’s coming and
We wanna smash Rome,
where lion’s shares of
wealth is Pentagon with
the wind beneath F-16
wings and other such
Lethal junk machines

Somewhere there’s a place
for us, beyond Boss Tweet’s
blitzkrieg, jousting with
Hurricane Harvey,
Super Storm Sandy,
windmills, solar panels, unleaded water,
un-poisoned fruit—existential threats of
Socialism and peace…Somewhere there’s
this Shangri-La of work, leisure and love
Health, homes, books our trillions paid for—

Thousands of times over…

Former forklift driver/warehouse worker/janitor, Raymond Nat Turner is a NYC poet; BAR's Poet-in-Residence; and founder/co-leader of the jazz-poetry ensemble UpSurge!NYC. Read other articles by Raymond Nat, or visit Raymond Nat's website.