Notes About The Poem
This poem is about human trafficking. It was written in response to seeing images of a truck packed with women and children who thought they were paying for safe (but illegal) passage into the U.S., but were instead being sold into the sex slave industry.
Cargo
Commodities.
Packed up
Wedged together
Shut out from light and air,
Little creatures indifferent to life or death
Stacked.
Branded.
Horrified
Of what comes
With the open door.
Looking for the first opportunity
To Leap
Escape
This intolerable life.
The Mass grave
Of a two-dimensional reality.
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