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Fine China

by Trace Hints

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I was a waiter for a banquet for the 1%.
The beautiful people: the men in $50,000 Kiton tuxedos,
And the women in sheer gold Lame.
I dished out the Lobster Omelette topped with Gold Leaf,
And the guests relished the main course.
And when they cleaned their Royal Copenhagen,
Flora Danica plates,
Starving children stared up at them,
With their hollowed eyes.

William Swanson, the chief of,
Raytheon Defense Corporation,
motioned for me and demanded,
That I put White Truffle Marinara sauce,
Over the face of a little skeletal girl.
Another demanded Gruyere Cheese,
Steamed with champagne,
To cover up the image of a baby in Iraq,
Deformed by depleted uranium.

The images continued to play out on the million-dollar-a-plate dinner.

And the final scene in this banquet movie:

Images of children, their wrists,
and ankles bound in rope,
In the back of a van,
Victims of the dinner guests’s,
human trafficking.

There was no THE END for dessert.

(C)2017-Jaye B.

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released June 23, 2022

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Trace Hints performs provocative music that is everything from out- there- inspirational to street level grit. Much of this music has been composed in the deserts of Death Valley and high in the eastern Sierras in California. Thank you for your support! ... more

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