There's guilt when you have paid More when you haven't There's a soul reckoning in the priesthood of collectors Thank you, mother mary, you absolved sin When you took my dollars Confess to the papal treasury: take scratch with your scotch Matched stacks swear: evil has no home in this heart The moneyless must go to the far below Where fires cannot scorch that crucial tender Disbarred for gain refusals To be passed through, a temporary stopover Is to be as the lord of all creation Seven days and a paycheck Tithed out to forgo Ninety percent of a soul