Chinese Factories

Chinese teens slave
In huge sweatshops
For starvation wages,
Live and work
Like animals
Confined in cages
And even factory owners
Don't make big money
Because foreign contractors
And big retailers
Grab all the honey,
Thus, they buy goods
For small change
While consumers
Pay the full range
And due to this
Profits' seduction
The West cuts its own
Expensive production,
Resulting in the
Dubious enjoyment
Of massive manufacturing
Unemployment
And now, the US,
Of production bereft,
Has only low wage
Service industries left.

Alfred Charasz
Copyright 2007 Alfred Charasz