create wealth for those already wealthy.
Assets circulate in sinister eccentricity,
in ugly secrets. Hackneyed platitudes
cannot repair this toxic landscape.  

Unscarred, over-fed barons manipulate our daily lives
through stock options and insider trading.
This hostile takeover of human resources
leaves the minimum wage at $7.25.  

Melted for minerals, what is my material body worth?
There are no traces of rare earth.
Perhaps my innards could be sold.
My only value lies in labor for others.  

What is the cost of a pound of flesh?