Follow the Leader
I am the thing humans want most
Changing hands, this way and that
Dirty, stale, but this wasn't always so
I was born clean, perfect and neatly stacked
Issued from a cloning machine, brothers-in-arms
Cut from the mechanical womb, separated
Dispensed to all of you reading this
you have all known me, grasped me with
your oily skin, all of you guilty of
using me in varieties of ways, sometimes
I make you sick, so you turn as green
as my outer-self, I am as old as
the faces that are etched onto me
Washington, Lincoln, Hamilton, Jackson
and Franklin all smile up, as you
dispense with you affairs. I am the
universal drug of humanity. The tool
that proceeded fire, the invention of
all doomed societies. But I am
simply the usher, showing you to
you seat. The grand-show is what
I simple lead you too, your Paper
Guide. Follow me along the river of
greed, as we all follow the Ferry-Man
along the River Styx. You think little of
ME, and yet I bring you all of your
desires. Sit down and enjoy yourself
with me, your friend, Money.
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