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Another Police Riot

The NYPD vomited
out of armored trucks
black as the horses of Lorca’s
Guardia Civil
formed battle lines
brutality of batons
pepper spray
breathing dragoons
they beat punched kicked
the world’s new Gypsies
who renounce boundaries
claim no nation but
humanity.
                         Today
it is Palestine.
Tomorrow they will come
for all the unbelievers
the insufficiently patriotic
families of solidarity
who still count dollars
anarchist Disciples
who refuse to produce ID

Black Terror of churches
violent riots of patriots
all watched over by
riot masks of State
clutching truncheons of rage

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Ghost of a Poet, Risen. Woke as fuck. Beltalowda. Thor Viki. Singing about the dark times. Formerly of WetBankGuide.blogspot.com & ToulouseStreet.wordpress.com & @OddWords. wellbottomblues.com

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Mark Folse is a provincial diarist and aspiring minor poet from New Orleans. His past blogging adventures included the Katina/Federal Flood blog wetbankguide on blogspot.com which David Simon told NY Magazine was one of three blogs that helped inform Treme, and Toulouse Street–Odd Bits of Life in New Orleans, which once outranked the Doobie Brothers on Google Search. His work has appeared in The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, The New Delta Review, Metazen, New Laurel Review, Ellipsis,  What We Know: New Orleans as Home, Please Forward, The Maple Leaf Rag IV, and A Howling in the Wires (which he co-edited).

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