a poem for Molloch

City-swallower,
 chaos controller,
 patriarch of smog-demons,
 greatest of greed gurus,
 Satan-saint of viruses and heart-break,
 soul-consuming madnesses,
 phantom diseases,
 and titanic vampiric corporations...
 
finish what you've started.
 let the moneyed feel poverty's freeze,
 let the doctor know untreated disease,
 the masses the pariah's agonies,
 may the countryside buzz
 with lavish legions of liberal flees,
 and the metropolis sleep
 the deep and silent slumber of seas