Ben Gieske - So Many Multitudes

It began with thundering
................marching
.................................raindrops

Like a thundering herd of
................buffalo stampeding
.................................over prairie land

Hidden faceless immigrants
.................toiling late into the night
.................................drenched in debt and sweat

Rows of manikins
..................with revolving hands
..................................spewing out endless things

Rows of benches
..................lined with fear
..................................protests hidden in folded sleeves

Language barriers
...................frozen passports
..................................wages withheld

working in
....................the Land of the Free
..................................the “garbage” of global economy


No Justice Here

- March 5,2008

Published online by Sentinel Literary Quarterly, Vol.2 No.2, January 2009

Ben Gieske

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