Praise Mammon-Mazda that smartly entertains us
day and night, bringing a flat world into our eyes
and living rooms without stink
or terror: stainless bloodstains.
Girls, pray at pink altars to the hairless goddess;
bless the petro-divinity of your heroes,
boys, while the whole family
kneels at the shrine erected
by money’s priests that commune to consume our hours;
bless CBS, NBC, ABC, and for
a monthly fee bless fifty
channels of wafer-cable.
In return for our faithfulness, we are given
the paradise of eternal distraction. Let
other countries riot and
starve: We’ll die watching them die.