Wall Street Bull
Statue of a bull, the symbol of commerce, on Wall Street.
What’s supposed to happen now
Is the government gives a billion more dollars
To the billionaires who are feeling angsty
So that they’ll stop selling their stocks.
Because when billionaires are nervous,
It’s bad for everybody and they
Get nervous a lot; their anxiety
Must be appeased, because their greed
Is good for everyone; without them,
Nobody would have any jobs
Or any purpose;
Capital is the only real object
In the universe; everything else
Is just potential
Because if you have a body
That isn’t plugged into the matrix
That means you are living
In destitute poverty like all
Those Zapatistas in their milpas
Harvesting corn today at 5 am
Like they do every day of the year
Virus or no virus —
What’s the difference?
Their backward ways keep them poor —
They wash their clothes in the river
While they swim;
The whole village plays soccer
In the evenings; they drink soda hot.
The billionaires have not saved them yet;
It’s no wonder that American Christians worship
A billionaire God who is always one mouse click
Away from ruining everybody else’s lives
Because he’s sovereign and he likes
Putting his thumb down;
He makes products for humanity
And they’d better buy the right ones
If they want to go to heaven.
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The Rev. Morgan Guyton, along with his wife, the Rev. Cheryl Guyton, serves as co-director of the NOLA Wesley Foundation, the United Methodist campus ministry at Tulane and Loyola University in New Orleans, La. This post is republished with the author's permission from his blog Mercy Not Sacrifice on Patheos.com.