A human life, just what is it worth?
The bacon consumed with your breakfast of eggs
From hogs that were slaughtered where poor people work
In plants where the workers fear ending up dead
Because of conditions unsafe on the job
They face major danger of being infected
By COVID-19. Their lives for your hogs
But that matters not; their pleas are rejected
By President Trump who ordered meat plants
Not to close down no matter the deaths
Of workers exposed, who’re told that they can’t
Stay away and still their unemployment get
Trump’s act is indicative of something deeper
Those meat-packing workers are people of color
As are the most workers at jobs that are menial
But clearly essential for running the country
Republican leaders treat them as expendable
Their lives are the price paid to boost the economy
That they are Democrats makes it more credible
This is their trade off, the height of ignominy
5/1/20
