The messiah comes
Loping, like the bloated oxen
Gored with deep revenge.
High on the altar of self-interest
Gilded with bitcoin
He brays aloud
“God has saved me
To deliver your salvation
From the evils of this humanist age
Here, now, we are all equal”
[some more than others]
The high priests stand guard
And bellow their flash agreement:
“The only god is money
The only taste is fear
[now anger and rage
and climate change
flood the battered earth]
Bow down before your master
[god’s bellicose insane]
And bleat your fresh obeyance
Unto those wolves on high:
Think no more:
[the shysters tread the boards]
Rest you now in dim deceiving”
[lion’s head and gangrenous body
onwards lope to Bethlehem]
The messiah comes.
December 2024
Loping, like the bloated oxen
Gored with deep revenge.
High on the altar of self-interest
Gilded with bitcoin
He brays aloud
“God has saved me
To deliver your salvation
From the evils of this humanist age
Here, now, we are all equal”
[some more than others]
The high priests stand guard
And bellow their flash agreement:
“The only god is money
The only taste is fear
[now anger and rage
and climate change
flood the battered earth]
Bow down before your master
[god’s bellicose insane]
And bleat your fresh obeyance
Unto those wolves on high:
Think no more:
[the shysters tread the boards]
Rest you now in dim deceiving”
[lion’s head and gangrenous body
onwards lope to Bethlehem]
The messiah comes.
December 2024
