Useful Verses
By Ewan
- 531 reads
“Let us speak the useful verses,
while the dumbstruck,
maddened crowd disperses.
“Let us read from Malachi,
pluck no splinters
from a jaundiced eye,
sacrifice the blind and lame,
spill their blood in mammon’s name.”
We will read our fairy tales,
while governmental welfare fails
our finger runs beneath the lines
the poorest feel the pitchfork’s tines.
We are not lilies;
we spin, and we toil,
they consider us not
worth a drop of oil.
“O let us commence
the drawing of lots,
to find the recipients
for the blackest of spots,
"test and count and measure for measure
‘til they must work to fund our leisure.
“Let us read from holy writ;
parables of mites and talents,
those allegoried fabled scenes,
to justify the end of means.”
Footnote:
And if ye offer the blind for sacrifice, is it not evil? And if ye offer the lame and sick, is it not evil?
Malachi Ch.1 v.8
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Powerful- thought provoking
Powerful- thought provoking and apropos today.
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