Slaves To Money God
© Surazeus
2025 05 05

If we remember why the bridge was built
to connect rivals for water of life,
we could share apples and bread at the feast
before they invade our town from the sea
and sell us all as slaves to Money God
though he was exposed for financial fraud.

Ishtar will mend our broken hearts with love
as we toil in vast factories of greed
constructing televisions and computers
for the rich in towers of steel to buy
who hire us as slaves to Money God
since Jesus Justus rules with Iron Rod.

Attempting to collect payments still owed
for their generous loan to the Mad King,
the French fight Mexico on Fifth of May
till Moctezuma rides to save the day
and free us all as slaves to Money God
in holy land where angels never trod.

The Great Bridge Builder with rod of two snakes,
who wears fish-mouth crown in cathedral hall,
rules Roman Empire for two thousand years
constructed on petrified heart of stone
that keeps us trapped as slaves to Money God
who drinks wine while we till the rain-wet sod.

We in the fields, who watch beautiful flame
burn ancient city of the Mocking Clown,
observe clash between lords of citadels
where gangsters ruled empires of wealthy pride
earned from our work as slaves to Money God
in fierce conflicts which investors applaud.

As lonesome creatures nurtured in the sea,
who transform from hunters in wandering tribes
to clerks and salesmen in large companies,
we build vast cities of mermaids and trolls
who might rebel as slaves to Money God
but put their faith in religious facade.

As mortal enemies in fight for truth,
loyal to the master from Aragon,
we work together for the greater good
to build democracy from ash of war,
freedom denied as slaves to Money God
who fishes every summer off Cape Cod.

When sly wizard, wearing old vaudeville mask,
jumps off the Washington Avenue Bridge,
Minerva wakes in Tower of Rapunzel,
where she lives in gold cage Midas designed,
to protect us as slaves to Money God
when we decide to join her Justice Squad.

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Orpheus leads slaves to Money God from Hell across the waste land to the Promised Land where they all work in the amusement park of Wonderland.

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