Tuesday, April 11, 2023

Billionaires Will Save Us

 Billionaires will save us 

Emerging  from the sun.

They will ride in chariots of gold  


Billionaires will teach the savage to grow crops

Of maize and durum


They will heal the sick and the lame.

They will bring the gift of song and dance.

They will save us all.


They will slay the monsters under beds and in closets

They will take on big tobacco

They will  part the sea 


They will promise to have and to hold

To  honor and protect 

In sickness and in health


Billionaires will accept you 

Billionaires will understand you

Billionaires will love you 


Open the gates!

Send the children and beautiful maidens holding baskets of flowers and wearing crowns of daisies in their hair-

 to greet them and shower them with petals.


Praise them 

Praise them 

Hallelujah


On a carpet of the finest velvet 

 (no expense is spared)

lead every billionaire -

Lead one by one to the special thrones of gold.


Where they will sit 

and watch as the guillotine is prepared in their honor.

They will sit 

Watch and wait 

Wait and watch

until it is their time to gently and lovingly place their necks 

Into the stock-


And regret- 

Regret that they only have one life to give…

(for you, for me)


Billionaires will save us, 

and wash away all our sins.


Amen.


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