money gods

[sweetwater]

selling this place street by street
to the money gods of ideological refrain
in war of horse and chariot and song
to dance the dance again

obfuscate the obvious
to obliviate the opportunity
to oil the gold of oil

from the standard of morals
to the moral of money

whose value concedes to the lost beginnings
of country and wages warred in the wearing
of time

to re-visit the past as if to say there was something
that cannot be included in the analysis
of

unless there discovered the intent

other than

how much does it pay

what are the odds

but the bigger question is what

you spend your money on