Monopoly

Finally the day dawned when a monopoly owned everything in the world So it went looking for its stockholders to celebrate But they were all owned by it they were all dead they were someplace Their photographs hung in elevators which went up and down up and down carrying nobody Everyone else was in bed doing exercises to get in shape for noon Hey the monopoly said let's uncork the World Trade Center and get blotto Silence The monopoly scowled All it wanted was a little good-fellowship, like you get in the highrise apartment-buildings Then the sky got awful dark Gee And everyone was in bed frantically doing those exercises that get us in shape for death Exercises known as "kissing" "fucking" "caressing" Everyone was unaware that they had been bought Or that the earth was about to sell them to the moon For a little light