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Serotonin Synthetic silk sewing, stitching, scribbling garment makers – Smoke was pumped into the sky – as usual. Fair factories formulating, fabulating, fabricating model workers – Tens of thousands a day – nothing beautiful. As usual, smoke was pumped into the sky – Jet-black soot – pigmenting the laborers' uniforms whole– Tens of thousands a day – nothing beautiful. Cinder conquering all bodily airways, filled with a reminder of reality Jet-black soot was pigmenting the la

Serotonin We flip to an empty page as your emptiness fails to flip The switch of our minds, dragging, droning, drowning, Pulses burning, electrocuting, demanding us to stay behind. Your 16-hour production target, checkbox unchecked every time. Until our hearts turn, until our heads and the walls turn, And turn the bleak sky and the black fly and the blurred lights too. Turn the turning wheels and widening gyre in our minds too. Turn the turning threads that twine around and k

Albert Wang, first published in Harvard International Review, 2022 Thick, black smoke pumped into the bleak sky. Cramped workplaces pervaded by pungent miasma of chemicals. A pair of jeans for sale at 20 dollars on Amazon. We seldom associate the first two scenes to the third; however, responsible for 10% of global CO2 emission and 1.4 million work-related injuries per year, the fashion industry’s acceleration and expansion is bringing pressing yet commonly ignored repercussi