I have often pondered the Gospel verse
'The poor you will always have with you,
the good you do them you can do anytime
but you [his audience] will not always
have me [Jesus] to do good by'.
The constancy of poverty is what makes it
constantly claim the errant attention span
of the rich-but-absent-minded.
Charity under capitalism is less
about the presence or absence of Jesus
and much more about how deeply attached
the rich are, to what makes them unworthy.
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