Where the Sugar Dollars
       

Where the sugar dollars
have not yet reached is

not far: look no farther
than the cane fields,

where a boy wields
a machete half his size.

What is the size of
injustice? Can it be

sliced in half, then that
half slashed? Where does

all that sugar go? Why
do we call it sweet?

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