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American Gods
Old gods lie abandoned
Battered in the bloody dust
Left without a second though
As their clergy arrives here
Given up for American Gods
The god of credit card
of internet, of gossip
The god of celebrity
of entitlement, of pharmaceuticals,
of casual sex
The deities of Tele-(vision and phone)
Do those old gods survive?
The god of virtue
of creativity, of inspiration
The god of life
of history, of health,
of love
The deities of our fathers
Do you remember them?
Athena lies dead
Ravaged by internet
Hermes, quick wit
Done in by highway
Osiris sleeps, bound
Held by the magics of chemistry
Zeus, thunderstruck
Power grids hold him
Tyr lost his other hand
In the blast of an atom bomb
Ares yet thrives
Wandering the middle east and Africa
Aphrodite enslaved
In the eyes of Hollywood
Cellphone spreads the word
Television is communion
Internet the bible
Banks, your churches
Convenience your reward
The backwards ways
Of the gods of old
Scorned by the laity
Of the American Gods
The monuments of laser light
The gospel of the anchorman
The oracle of stockbrokers
The true cross of video
Even the saints of industry
They claim to preserve
No oil, no meat, no impact
Yet their forefathers die
Your American Gods
Have come to save you
From creativity
From having to think
Twinkies, the body
Coke, the blood
For the concealment of sin
Those American Gods
Start a mission in Europe
Another in China
As the spirits flee
The American Gods
Fight for dominance
To become
The Modern Gods
they hunt down resistors
Through GPS
They destroy them
Through anti-psychotics
Those Modern Gods
Like AIDS and Internet
Invade the world
Of the fallen gods
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