The bodies lie
Helpless
In democratic rows
As the switches
Are thrown
One by one
And the blood flows
A million silent mouse clicks
Making an aggregate,
A figure to weigh in calculation.
Today it is down
Against pork rinds and frozen steaks
The price of the blood,
Is fixed on invisible scales,
It has been weighed
And measured, fitted tightly
Into sealed sterilised capsules,
Flown across the world in no time
Now the tubes are hooked up
To thousands
Of life support machines.
Soon
It will be pumping,
Gushing like thick black
Spurting oil
Into our homes, the corpuscles
Merging and mixing,
Circulating into a billion
New homes
Its worth
Precisely calculated;
Its energy
Fuelling our hearts
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