Pig Butchering
Our modern world
lacking in humanity
herding them
into secret factories
tricked and trafficked
forced to toil
enslaved to enrich
Chinese crime gangs
with specific scripts
for pig butchering:
romance and crypto
investment scams.
Victims prey on victims
via fake online profiles
via deepfake videos
rich marks lured
by poor workers lured
to fake paying jobs
to real unpaid labor
bad food, packed dorms
beatings as morale boosters
living like farm animals
with 15-hour stints
warehouses of screens
running myriad scams
ruining others’ lives
their own lives ruined
trapped in the system
of ultra-modern slavery
to the vast organizations
that are bilking billions
from the global economy
in the ever-expanding
lawless global zones
in the scam compounds
of the pig butchering industry.
a fascist is a fascist is a fascist
Night town
white town
deep snow
deep cold
color white
and here we all are
a hybrid nation of individual
freedoms blackbooted
stomped upon
laws, norms, civility
under hard ice feet
glorifying the crush
the masks and heavy arms
bulked up brutality
colorless cruelty
attack dogs attacking
what stands in the way
of a demented mind
of a bulldozed morality
while the red rose pools
red red red
on the soft white snow.
No matter what the Administration might say, in embattled Minneapolis a rose is still a rose is still a rose.