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Sugar

Sugar sweet, taste so bitter
The relentless snap of the demands
from those who use their backs to
break the canes
Sugar sweet, sugar white
Bleached to remove
the natural brown
and the added blood stains
from their labor  
their enslavement
just sweetens the deal
and the tea and the cakes
Nothing sweeter
than purchased people
to profit the man who
whose appearance
and influence
matches his crop.

(2015)

#Slavery #Sugar

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