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 Empire State Build-
ing 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 prepare us 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