LIVING DEATH

Whether through the adulterated wealth

Of capitalism or the purer wealth of socialism,

Private hoarding or public sharing,

Economics rules the contemporary roost,

The electron bird of the people

Shorn of its feathers and unable to fly,

Angrily hugging the ground.

Who but the Messiah can save this bird

From its living death ... through the Resurrection,

The rebirth of civilization

On the highest wavicle terms

Of electron freedom and spirit?

Marx is no saviour but, rather, an Antichrist

Of the materialist death, Das Kapital

The pseudo-Bible of the radical State,

Wealth to be shared, instead of abolished,

In the interests of social progress,

The socialistic 'best of a bad (economic) job',

The evil collectivism of socialist dispensation opposing

The evil individualism of capitalist exploitation.

How inadequate from the standpoint

Of the Second Coming! He who wishes

To lift electron man above

The economic strangulation of state existence

And free him for the Centre,

The true revolutionary who despises

Mere bureaucratic rebellion against

The plutocrats, estimating revolution

On the meritocratic terms of a wavicle progression,

The positivity of the Centre

Rather than the negativity of the State.

He knows that man won't live fully

Until the living death is overcome

By the resurrection of religion

On the purest wavicle terms.

The Second Coming isn't of the Church

But of the Centre,

Isn't of Roman Catholicism

But of Social Transcendentalism,

Isn't of the Blessed Will

But of the Blessed Spirit,

Which alone portends a Life Eternal.