( essential element of your phone
and blood-product of the Congo War)
Five milligrams in your ear
and five million dead
for a geoviral app
a genocidal rape
your superfast microprocessor
hacked from a hill of mud
your microchip capacitor
sieved from a heap of slag
unlocking the data flow
with a handful of clotted dirt
and slaking the global thirst
with a mouthful of metal dust
a few minutes extra free talk
for an infinity of silence
your neck severed at the nape
for the price of an upgrade
David Amery
Pic Nick Victor