Greed

Get back to work child.
There’s no time to rest your weary fingers.
These clothes must be made child.
the cloth cannot linger.

Get back to sewing child.
Flashy, stylish, fun.
put in your blood, sweat, and life child.
The work’s never done.

Get the needle threading child.
America’s waiting for the new trend.
Don’t whine about the heat child.
I’ll never better the conditions, it won’t end.

Don’t give me any lip child,
or I’ll take your mother’s pay.
She needs your work to keep her job child.
I won’t have it any other way.

“I won’t!” says the child.
“smack” says the hand to the child’s face.
“stop” says the mother.

The mother is taken away.
She is brutally raped as punishment.

                                                    Enjoy your clothes