Free Trade Anyone?

by Anisa Abeytia Yamani - Aquarius

If I could just survive the
New World Order
I know I'd be set for the next 5 years.
That's until the
"New and Improved" World Order
comes.
10 years down the line
a sticker will be added that reads,
"40% more, free."

But how free?

Free for you and me in the
land of liberty.
Costing others dearly in
India, Mexico, Uganda and Afghanistan.

The price of freedom has just gone up.
While the price of staple crops have just gone down, but 
in Brazil they starve.

So as you drive down the streets of
the free world, the pearls pulled
from off the necks of the Arab nations
rolling around in your gas tank,  
On your way to feast 
on the food reaped by the stoop labor
of generations of Mexican migrant workers;
you think about the cost then.

A finite world, with finite resources.

That's what it'll read when
you take it up to the counter
and the clerk scans the skew number.

Birth sign: Aquarius
Date created: 2000-03-27 18:36:46
Last updated: 2021-03-03 14:41:58
Poem ID: 55270

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