The Systems We Caste

remember the lingering taste of stench upon your tongue of man, woman, emaciated, eviscerated to break them, to weaken them against resistance, against sane revolt woman, man, dungeon’d, chained, knee-deep a hellhole of eddied rising tides of urine’d feces in search of resurrection always, the rape to scourge, to break, to purge diabolic darwinian thinning the herd of them, unnatural selection through prescribed brutality, a purgatory prep for passage, the strongest, the fittest of them, the door of no return from transatlantic barbarism survivalists sold into four hundred plus years of shackled generation-deep communal feces, surging putrescent menstrual flow, no water, no food, no light, no air to breathe raped, woman, man, raped, always the rape, to scourge, to break, to purge them one floor below holy white men on bent gold coast knees, one floor above bent on breaking the spirit of broken black humanity inurned 3