Tokenism: This is No Arcade; Token in the Machine

Poems (audio)

How we’ve rejected—and how we’ve been subjected to being a “token”…

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Photo by Upesh Manoush on Unsplash

This is No Arcade

You must be thinkin’
we’re in some kind of arcade
where you take me for a token.
You must be jokin’!
Think you can easily buy and slide
me into a slot to use as a means
of temporary gratification?

Don’t even start to play with me!
Don’t try me!

Photo by Omar Lopez on Unsplash

Photo by Nuno Alberto on Unsplash

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token machine

Token in the Machine

Tired of being
used,
pushed,
played with—
then
put in the machine,
sucked in
and
subjugated
yet?

Photo by Jakayla Toney on Unsplash

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