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?
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