Our Supercenters, who are
in forest towns and city jungles,
we hallow your Low Price.
Each Sunday, your flyers come
and we run, spending
the last of two weeks' labor
in stores from Beijing to Washington.
Sell us this day, money-changer,
our fiesta-ware,
knick-knacks and cheap underwear;
and forgive us the occasional trespass
onto competitors' store premises
(we want the golden deal!)
as we forgive you your human relations.
Lead us to a disposable world
and deliver us from value.
You're in all nations, all kingdoms; yours
a global market power; yours, a plastic chain
of demand and supply, long enough to lasso
the moon—
now and forever. Or until
we want our money back.
I have said that paryer again and again, Of course I have thrown in the occassional, "Please help me with my twelve dollar oil change." And of course there is the dollar days, in which case it sounds more like this, "Lord please give me The courage to park in the parking lot without a bloodbath, the striength to push through the crowd that blocks the door, The wisdom to find another way in if I can't walk over the bodies." Amen!
Reviewed by Flying Fox Ted L Glines (Reader)
Reviewed on December 25, 2006
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