Exploitation Of Poor People
© Surazeus
2025 04 23

Tired of being constrained by official laws
that prevent exploitation of poor people,
King Midas leads army of greedy thugs
to fire thousands of people from good jobs
who wander cast out from their family homes
stolen through legal tricks in court of law.

Saint George rides white horse into Gotham City,
asking pedestrians to point the way
to where monstrous dragon of angry greed,
driven by fear Fortune favors him not,
devours hands of poor people to control
land he confiscates through legal warfare.

The Rifleman stands alert in the street
in small prairie town on the windy plain,
and tells the woman with basket of pears
that when the people of the country stop
paying attention to how affairs are run
they will lose their justice and liberty.

After dancing on the tightrope of faith
over abyss of vital hope for wisdom
to overcome the weakness of his fear,
Superman looks inward with laser eyes
to plot how societies develop morals
so he can control fate with his will to power.

Calculating steps of development
in progressive course from cause and effect
which advance phases of expansive growth,
Hamlet ponders to be or not to be
assertive force of change for equal rights
he hopes will transform world society.

Holding high lamp of freedom glowing bright,
Diogenes searches maze of the world
for the honest man with strong moral compass
enlightened enough to manage with calm
global Ship of State he navigates safe
through icebergs of fascist nationalism.

Wielding hammer of constructive respect,
Thor builds houses with kitchens and bedrooms
where poor people may dwell in world peace
to shape habitat for humanity
till Pluto destroys those houses with bombs
as he grasps to control material wealth.

With fierce infection of impiety
by painting his face with false mask of strength,
the Mad King bankrupts Nature with his greed
in clutching at grand illusion of wealth
with small hands that symbolize his weak state,
gibbering in rage that he has lost the game.

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Orpheus arrests King Midas and Pluto, tries them for treason under the Angel Rede, imprisons them in Azkaban Prison, then attends the World Cup Soccer Tournament.

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