Slave Times

by Mwatabu S. Okantah


... and, the marquee outside the club read:

"CHITTERLINGS
    AND CHAMPAGNE--
SUNDAY BRUNCH."

in this new
old world
slave food exists for enslaved minds.
the champagne
somehow seduces the tongue
so it tastes
something other than
captivity;
sadly, for too many,
it is still slave
times ...


       USA

Slave Times by Mwatabu S. Okantah

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