They ordered us
online.
Kept inventory
like The Gap.
Kept records
of slaves through
commodity and
shipping insurance
Listed
how many
were on
each ship
arrived in
each state
each country
each continent
each island
for each year.
Kept track of
how many died
how many got sick
how many got pregnant
how many were
thrown overboard.
It’s all written down.
People had paid
good money.
Paid to be
protected against
acts of God and nature.
Invented new business
models
when old ones grew
weary
through constant gaze
and inquiry.
Fought against
transparency
until public image
demanded they
support it.
Fought
for corporations
to be treated as people
using legislation
intended to give
slaves the rights
of humans and citizens.
Blessed is he
who tends
to ignore it.
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