Performance Poet Dee Allen makes a timely return. The US Government, through the National Terrorism Advisory System Bulletin, declares that we must be alert and vigilant to the movements and machinations of the domestic antigovernment terrorists. Dee Allen makes sure we pay attention to what they’re saying, what they have been saying, lest we be caught unawares.
Rolling Out
“DUE TO THE ELECTION VICTORY OF OPPONENT JOE BIDEN, OUR PRESIDENT’S STAND-BY ORDER HAS BEEN RESCINDED. WE’RE ROLLING OUT.” Rolling out To save Western Civilisation— They love to blow On that dog whistle Rolling out To prevent White genocide— They obviously Don’t read statistics Rolling out For the Whites who built Western society alone— They've obviously Forsaken the slaves who raised wood, mortar & stone Rolling out To give multi-cultural populace Their own racial reckoning For the loss of a “fearless leader” Rolling out To keep America great— On the streets, like no other— Maybe Hitler’s Brownshirts* and Nazi skinhead gangs Rolling out With American flags in their horde— Proud to sow intimidation, reap domestic terror Quasi-military boys so proud to be so damn wrong— W: Thankstaking 2020 *Das Sturmabteilung [ SA - “Storm Unit” ].
©Dee Allen – 2021
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Dee Allen is an African-Italian performance poet based in Oakland, California. Active on the creative writing & Spoken Word tips since the early 1990s. With 35 anthology appearances [including Your Golden Sun Still Shines, Rise, Extreme, The Land Lives Forever, Civil Liberties United, Trees In A Garden Of Ashes, Colossus: Home and new from Chicago-based MuseWrite Press, Impact] under his figurative belt so far, he is also the author of five books, which can be found via the links below.
BONEYARD [ 2010 ] > Dee Allen (poormag.info)[Book is currently out of print.]
UNWRITTEN LAW [ 2012 & 2020 ] > Dee Allen (poormag.info) [2012 edition is out of print.] and UNWRITTEN LAW: POEMS [ 1994–2011 ] | poorpressprensapobre[2020 edition.]
STORMWATER [2017] > Storm Water | poorpressprensapobre and Stormwater – Poetry by Dee Allen | flapperpress
SKELETAL BLACK [2019] > Skeletal Black | poorpressprensapobre and Skeletal Black – Poetry by Dee Allen | flapperpress
ELOHI UNITSI [2020] > Elohi Unitsi: Poems [2013 – 2018] (conviction2change.com)
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