All of the world beneath my penis must worship
As I gaze upon the slums from my mansion
To me belong your toils and your bodies
To me belong your democracies and your leaders
To me belong your nation and your planet.
I something think I am God himself, but man worships money more
Therefore I must surpass the Almighty
He must admire me, or he'd have tried halting me
Surely I am the one who brings death and life
I am Yamraj to the Adivasi and Shiva to the Aborigines.
This is my land and you are my tenants
I am human and you are mere filth
My phallus is a lingam you must garland with money or else
I will chose to strike thee down and scrape a mine from your land
Your ancestors' bones will be excavated and your lineage inspected for minerals.
We Own thy history and thy future
We Bless and Curse those We Will
Our Angels will take your souls at the appointed time
The Disbeliever cast into a Fire and The Believer in Gardens beneath which rivers flow
All-Seeing All-Hearing Unseen Master of Worlds.
Is what I whisper to myself at night in my cold bed
The word "Kafir" all but written upon my forehead
The steady tick of the moonlit clock a sweaty reminder
The worry that one Bhungi's sacrifice will burn my villages down
The fear that God will not take bribes from mortals.
https://youtu.be/yS0ku80GQQs
INKTOBER 18: SCRAPE/"THE RICH MAN"
MUSIC: Tum Ek Gorakh Dhanda Ho, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
VIDEO: Animal Farm, Halas & Batchelor, 1954 - "Napoleon's Downfall"; some imagery inspired by "Bhungi" by Munshi Premchand.
"Have you not considered the one who argued with Abraham about his Lord [merely] because Allah had given him kingship? When Abraham said, “My Lord is the one who gives life and causes death,” he said, “I give life and cause death.” Abraham said, “Indeed, Allah brings up the sun from the east, so bring it up from the west.” So the disbeliever was overwhelmed [by astonishment], and Allah does not guide the wrongdoing people." - Quran, 2:258.
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