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from For the Seals

XI

I am going to pray
at the bank
where God
will hear my pleas.

Give us this day
our daily
clients.

There is no salvation
without work
nor work without profits.

Collect our debts
as we too
collect
from our debtors.

And deliver us
from recession
amen.