Let me count the ways crime actually pays

Big time. Once you’re handed the microphone,

You can make manifest future realities:

Hyperstition obtains by the telling of compelling stories,

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And thus it is that prophecies become self-fulfilling.

Engineered through media repetition, they assume

A contagious virality. Objection, merely cacophony

Of the meek. Swamp each zone with a vision of crypto:

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Soon each proves a cryptocracy. See Antichrist

In your crystal ball. Here He is, shambling down the aisle;

The robot taking Melania to bed. Just as those twin towers

Were built to be brought down, the Mafia beguile

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By painting us into a corner of their predictive history:

Expectations of the end of the present age or of the world itself

Erect an eschatology popular with the Bank

Of International Settlements. Negative events will climax,

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And, as the flames lick the monuments, trillionaires will sing

To their lyres. Greed is good. Poverty a sin

For which the punishment is slavery. Better sell your child

To the Elect. No way out. It’s best to be corrupt.

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Mate with your daughter, drink the adrenalized blood

Of innocent infants freshly arrived from Romania.

Best to commit a crime so overwhelmingly beastly

No one believes it – always act pious and priestly.

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Gods understands this. A flood should be on your agenda.