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.