The Price of Life

Today I learned that

scientists lie like threadbare

rugs hoping for fame and

fortune

Swindled money from

families with dead kids and

promised clones with the same

eyes and mind and soul

Made off into the sunset with

vows unfulfilled

artfully skilled

in deception by using the

cover of their profession

Never punished nor reprimanded

high on the hog of mothers’ hopes

and dreams slaughtered

and bled

with a bowie knife

The promise of everlasting life

immortality from test tubes and

a DNA splice

I think about

a time when people would go

to mass

sit their ass down on

a hard pew listen to this

guy spew about how he

could save their eternal soul

for just 9.99 or so

for their sinful Indulgences

and when you get right down

to it whether the robe’s a lab

coat or a papal regalia

I guess it’s the same thing

really.