Kingdom Come

The poor you will always have with you; it's just as the Savior has said.

You'll find them among the best families, cuz you can be broke and well-fed.

Of course there are homeless and jobless and orphans and widows and such

Who lean on religion and welfare, and find it a willowy crutch.

The eye of a needle for rich folk is not such an all-daunting view;

With lawyers, accountants and lipo, they'll figure a way to slip through.

The world has a conscience, or leastways it craves the publicity due

To heroes who give away money to keep the poor way out of view.

A beggar can work like a Trojan to earn but a pittance, and when

Illness and stock markets kick up he has to start over again.

The prisons are full of plain people who can't buy a cop or a judge

Or influence stern politicians, who spend all their time making fudge.

I'd rather be poor in my spirit and live in a comfortable house

Than spend the night praying and hungry in fields with the cricket and mouse.

But since I am fated to never have silver and gold I can spare,

And since all my debts keep on growing, while I live upon the thin air,

I'll dawdle awhile on God's footstool to see what turns up for a bum –

That is if Iran, North Korea, don't first blow us to Kingdom Come.

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