SUGAR MINERS

SUGAR MINERS

sugar miners

not for
      minors

candy
  finders

old joke going back
to the goldrush of 1849

the sweetness they
find down there
      a seam so treaty

litigation and issues
of property rights
   following
               everywhere

but
    I bought this face
from a robber baron
could not be
happier
at the game
history played

the dice loaded, the hired help
packing

alternate narrative notwithstanding

this is the way
it has always been