What's All This Rabbiting For, Anyway?

Money
l'argent
scrilla
cheddar...
is the bars
excercise wheel
and lining
of your very own
cage
in
These United States.
Actually
it's like that nearly
everywhere
these days
all things being globalized
which means all things are
commodified.
All things must pass, right?
So shall this too?
Mr. Marx?

Yes.
Class antagonism
as a function of dialectical materialism
makes this inevitible.
Thesis
antithesis
synthesis.
Dig it?

Yeah
but
they didn't take plastic then
did they?
Never pay for today
what you can put off tomorrow
or even sell
to a third party.
Mr. Marx,
didn't you also say that
capitalism
will strip
every shred
of artisanship
craftsmanship
and regional culture
from the face
of the earth
in its
never ceasing search
for
another market??
You know...
something
or someone
to commodify???

Of course I did
kid.
Now move along.
I've got other books to sign.
That addition on our summer home
ain't gonna pay for itself.

Well
there you have it
straight from the beard
of Das Kapital
into yer rods und cones.
I try to be a good
structuralist
n be in the world
but not too much of it.
So you kids play nice
and treat
money
scrilla
greenbacks
cheddar
with cautious respect.
Remember though,
it ain't everything.
It's just a concept.
a con
cept.