A Reading From the Book of Joad

They breathe profits
they eat the interest on money
if they don’t get it they die
the way you die without air, without side meat.

The bank is something more than men
I tell you; it’s the monster
Men made it
but they can’t control it.

It is easier for a camel
to pass through the eye of a needle
than for a rich man
to enter the Kingdom of God

Speak up for those
who cannot speak for themselves
for the rights of all
who are destitute

for when the majority of people
are hungry and cold
they will take what they need;
when property accumulates in too few hands
it is taken away

For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat
I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink
Whatever you did not do for the least among you
you did not do for me

How can you frighten a man
whose hunger is in the wretched bellies
of his children?
You can’t
for he knows a fear beyond any other

I see the seeds we’re sowing
the grapes of wrath are growing
on the vine
Heed these words Oh children
that ye may be saved!

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