the economics lesson

is free unless you fail and then I take your teeth so listen lad in 1776 america was born fuck philly’s bogus bell and bow to adam smith the wealth of nations’ invisible ineluctable hand that’s raised in benediction for the worthy and slapped you to that gutter you see my forefathers founded clapboard churches and god smiled and made it rain holy green so I earned mine fortune favors the faithful and the faithless writhe so I clasp these hallelujah hands and avoid the unclean which means I will not help or hit you my foot will do the work now grab your bootstraps boy and yank yourself respectable before I stamp your shame I’ll wear my cross and you’ll wear your caste in your shattered grimace dental care is for winners