Economics

Impoverished riches, gilded trash-heaps
Their careless abundance

Impoverished riches, gilded trash-heaps
Their careless abundance
    smothering satisfaction
Needs multiplying with production
The spirit packaged, sterile, on the shelf,
Discounts well-advertised, no units
    Left unsold

Orgy of consumption
Bottomless desire
Which grows malignant
     In the belly
Of the blood-crazed beast
Whose devouring more unslakes
Unbounded thirsting

Exalted measures
Of unceasing increase
Profits swelling, prophets wailing
Incorporated godhood
The whole world promised 
in exchange for worship
    Enshrined in contract

These the blue-chip masters
    overseers
Their vast plantations holy,
    wholly-owned.