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Never seen him in a school uniform.
Instead, each day, he wore clothes,
bearing time’s hands. Head, buried
among the greens at the back of my dorm.
His tiny hands, married
to a hoe, fell and rose
like a relentless boxer. His mum –
or so I thought – hurried
him: finish so you go fit chop. She said. It froze
my mind to think eating is a form
of miracle for an eight-year-old. I hurried
to class. His tiny hands fell and rose.
Author’s note: Dorsen, an eight-year-old Congolese boy, mined coal for the production of the iPhone. His story sparked outrage across the African continent in March 2017.
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