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—40,000 child miners work in southernDemocratic Republic of the Congo

We juggled boastfulness with our phonesin our hands. K said he used one before I ever knewwhat it was called. Then I sliced his insolencewith a photograph of a nine-year old meholding his point-the-light-to-the-soup phone.I was ignorant of the genesis of phones,how the light it opened in my face came to be—the sweats across the neck of little boys like myself.F said Africans are ignorant in noisemaking for our wound—to dissect the world with a shrill.To pull every eye into the body of our drowning.This time, it’s not cotton picking, but metal digging,willing & unwilling. Ripping the canopies of schoolingoff the backs of little children with a sack of cobalt.I posted a change for Congo on my........

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