Chained.
Manacled.
Blindfolded.
Shaved.
Wearing earmuffs.
Surgical masks.
Hands mitted.
Forced to kneel.
On rocky ground.
Living in kennels.
Separated uniformly.
This is a factory of American democracy.
But what is the product?
Intelligence?
And where do you dispose of the
waste products
When intelligence is wrung out
and all that is left
is a broken spirit
and a mass of flesh and bones?