It’s been a choppy day for trading,
And the market’s looking wan,
Gold is sticking to its vaults
While Bitcoin faces a ban
Greece is eying the drachma,
Its kebabs now overcooked,
While Chinese knees are trembling
As America cooks its books
And as the rich get richer
And the poor man fades away,
Money, gold and diamonds,
Will always win the day.
Meandering in Piraeus
Sunday in Piraeus, a line of people outside a church
I joined the line and was inside given a bag of cakes.
The old woman behind me was refused a bag of cakes
it appears she had joined the line three times,
I gave her my bag. I didn’t think much of priests who were mostly
soft faced and fat looking. The old woman had no teeth
I bought her a soft drink to swallow her cakes.
I sat in the park nursing a Dutch beer the local beer was
not to my liking, when the old woman came demanding
money I refused and she screamed rape. The police removed
her from the park. In the park a grotto, by paying a few drachma,
I could go in and there was an in a glass cage a likeness of baby Jesus
as only a disturbed person could have made, the eyes of baby Jesus
were full of malice and he had an ******** big as a smithy’s arm.
Soon after Simon and Jesus had arrived in Capernaum
Temple tax Collectors came for the two drachma sum
In questioning Simon as to whether Jesus would pay
Responding "Yes He will" and that was all Peter would say
So as Simon entered the house where Jesus was staying
What do you think now Simon as Jesus began saying
In the simple knowing that Jesus has never been wrong
Of course His argument was persuasive beyond strong
Peter was quick to see and so he too did agree
Though Jesus said unto him to just allow it to be
For He then sent Peter down to the sea to catch a fish
Knowing about the Lord Jesus you probably know about this
As with that, as Jesus had said, the first fish Peter had caught
There sitting in its mouth was what those collectors had sought
As is the sky and the land and this the ocean that He created
Let not His Power or His Glory upon you ever be dissipated
Tilapia
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