If we ate the rich We could build playhouses from their bones Paint fairytales onto marrow Watch our children dig pixie dust from the grooves Charleston to their windchime laughter
If we ate the rich We could pave roads with their teeth Crushed into twinkling mosaics Speed in glee down the polished calcium roads Walk on blooms of gold and lilac at sunset
If we ate the rich Their skin could line our altars Or catch the heat slipping through our walls To warm our hearts or frozen feet Whichever love was needed most
If we ate the rich And cleaned our teeth for ligaments And spat out the fatty gristle And when all that remained of the last billionaire Were just an eyesocket and some coins
We could sit back, Minds and bellies full to the brim, Fragmented bourgeoisie burps ringing, melodious, And laugh at those who claimed, in the old days,