3 Little Words
(For 2 EGs)
One to three
three on one
Life hanging
on tatted arms
of a windpipe-
crushing Nazi thug
3 little words
12 letters
11 times
Not artful air escaping
sides of a saxophonist’s mouth
Song For Her Father—
Fire-breathing, bullhorn
Blues shouter; Drum major
Marching, meeting, texting, tweeting,
writing: raising roofs of consciousness;
Standing up, sitting-in,
Dying-in, boycotting, blockading,
Refusing rest; chasing the fugitive:
‘Justice’
One to three
three on one
Not a broken bicycle pump
or blacksmith’s bellows—
3 little words
12 letters
11 times
Not Codetalker
father to daughter
Membership in the club
Wanting no new members—
club never giving her
space, to catch her breath—
know how it feels to
Breathe free…
instead of crying herself to
sleep listening for footsteps of
‘Justice’
One to three
three on one—
Heart attack
asthma
cancer
coma
Her carryons boarding
Nonstops, tearing her heart
into a thousand tender shards…
3 little words
12 letters
11 times
Codetalker daughter to father:
Please put politicians “thoughts and prayers”
out with promises and dirty diapers…
Raymond Nat Turner © 2018 All Rights Reserved
Raymond Nat Turner is
somebody who has a green light to place his work on my blog. He along many
others talents writers contributed to New Jersey Peace Action’s poetry
anthology “Peace Poems”.
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