How is the loan different from the knife? Final section.

Five men in suits waiting for their car
Escort to the capital
Someone looking out through the window
Someone sleeping in the street
Faces polished to hide their lies
Come to collect their share
The poor paying 
For the crimes against them.
Eight hundred billion dollars 
For a knife in the back.

The shadow bankers
They came and went 
Like assassins in the alley
Shadows in shadowland
Invisible to the eye
A free hand, no rules
A secret handshake might give them away
A look in the eye you wouldn’t like.
They can buy a crooked President
Bankrupt a country and sell what it owned 
The resources of the state 
Make interest on the debt.

8.7 million US jobs lost.
$2 trillion lost from the global economy
Where did it go
Was it there at all?
Inflationary high times
Make for drunken louts burning money.

Making art, selling art, buying art, 
Making money, selling money, buying money

	One and Three Chairs denies the hierarchical distinction 
		between an object and its representation

To the television studio 
In his Antonio Liverano suit 
In the green room they polished their nails
Checked their teeth, that smile
	So white, purity, right?
Talked about why they had not known
The truth
There was no money.

Everyone had their last interview
Like someone flying too close to the sun
Crashing from the sky blue dome
Twisting and tumbling like a gold coin tossed in the air now falling
47 bankers thrown in jail. 

The snake
You’ll never see him until too late
First the bite then the blood
Feel your life fading away.

Why are we always in crisis?

What a bank makes it trades in debt
What is a man in debt but a servant
What is a world in debt:
Three hundred and seven trillion.

Those third world countries 
Now called developing
But going nowhere they’re not wanted
Four hundred and forty three billion dollars 
To service their debt
More money received to service the loan
Than what the country had borrowed.

The loan
How is it different from the knife?