a boy explained the pyramids

What’s a slave?

the children asked

I drew a map

to show them how

my ancestors, and maybe yours

made money off of blood

We took the ships

from here to there

and made the victims work for free

and then denied the genocide

for many hundred years

a boy explained the pyramids

and said they were not built by them

the children of the internet

where moon landings are fake

I take a breath

and tell a tale

the truth of which is not as fun

in many ways, they will believe

in anything, when young