A Grace from the Usurer

“They can’t be poor.
They have refrigerators.
Let them afford their refrigerators.
Let them afford
the gift of the refrigerators we sell them.
Let them afford
some of the cost of the food
in the refrigerators we may repossess.
“Let them,
if they can and Oh . . .
Oh we think they can, know they will,
should agree to, pay interest on
credit cards for the food they lavish
on their refrigerators,
pay for the copper they borrow with the gold
we demand.
“So that,
they will have nothing left
whereby
to afford the painful luxury of their tears:
Wherefore
we do declare them happy.
And so shall they be.
And we shall be consoled.”

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