I am element earth and ore,

                   the twinkle in the sawdust floor. I am the brass that’s

              pressed and minted I am the note that’s newly printed. The rattling

                                               change and ringing till, the dirty, dog-eared dollar bill, the jealous         

                        green-confetti dreams and Eldorado’s endless seams. Each widow’s mite and bullion pile,

                  the winning million-dollar smile, the Cayman Island fat account, the oft unspecified amount  

                  creed religion race and rank the begging bowl and global bank the Holy Grail and silver  

    spoon the right to call the piper’s tune the glittering prize and going rate the Babel tower the Empire State

   the spam and virus junk and porn tiger bone and rhino horn the furs the food the fire the fuel fickle lover of

         the fool tithe and tribute tax and tare the devil’s dues and Charon’s fare the one armed bandit’s

      lightning draw the bottom line the boarded door the bribe and bung - and bonus too the filthy lucre

         cynic view eagle serpent bull and bear the suffering starving baby’s stare doss-house dole queue

                   closing sale pauper’s grave and debtor’s gaol barrio ghetto slum and shack mindless toil and

    camel’s back sweatshop sweet shop store and mall forest fire cremation pall the greedy madman’s

     glinting eye the lonely orphan’s unheard cry the lawyer twisting right from wrong the politician’s greasy

  tongue the poppy crop the web of lies the empty addict’s empty eyes desert drought and hurricane

        poison river acid rain bleating beating heart of gold the cardboard caves the freezing old the hooded  

      mugger’s lonely violence the greasy palm the price of silence the roaring Rumplestiltskin dance

  the poverty of ignorance the corporate speak the silvered lies the weight of guilt on dead men’s eyes 

            statistic key objective fact campaign coup and Kristallnacht the paydirt diamond and the whore

         bride of Satan dog of war tumbling head and burning tower twitchy-fingered superpower the empty
           pocket in the shroud the shadow of your mushroom cloud traitor's hand and Judas kiss nadir

nabob nemesis sword and bullet bomb and gun Molotov and megaton the

smell of napalm in the morning the faceless thirty-minute    

warning end of hope and

 death of dreams a lonely

 planet's
                      dying screams
                          the empty
              hand and
final chips
end of
days
                      Apocalypse
              Armageddon’s
ringing din
the wages
             of your
endless sin 
         your craven
idol lord
and master
    architect
of your

                        disaster
          I am
your
              pride
before
      the
fall

   I am

money

              I

        am
 

all

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