feast

transported worse
than cattle
then offloaded

force-marched
naked
through the hot humid Amazon
over the frigid Andes
to be worked to death
in the mines of Peru

or worked only
half-to-death
on the Southern plantations
(and sodomized
tongues and other
body-parts cut off
and babies unborn
cut out the wombs
et cetera et cetera et cetera)

producing
great wealth which enabled
great technological progress
and world domination
(which could not have been done
otherwise)

a veritable cannibal feast
in which we now
eagerly participate

eating the flesh
of our grandparents

4 Jumaadaa-al-Awwaal 1440
January 10, 2019