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If I Had $1000000

after Barenaked Ladies 


I know that someday we will win
and make the wealth hoarders pay-

pigs snorting out loyalty pledges
for the crowd while that one song 

echoes lonely in their head because
there will never be anyone 

with a million dollars again
and to celebrate I’ll take you 

fully in my mouth and shout
through your engorged organ 

from each according to his ability
to each according to his need! and yes

it’ll be a little muffled but
you’ll get the point and come 

right then and there in harmony
with the tenor of my voice 

until you forget there ever was
a nightmare named gender 

or a tortureporn called poverty
and we’ll lie around naked

until the sun comes up and goes
back down again and fuck 

so many more times
over a four-day weekend 

while our lives are paid for by echoes
of everything taken from us.

 

 

 

 


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