The Profiteer

By George D. Brewer

When God made the buzzard, the toad and the snake;

As well as the worm and the rat,

He stirred what was left of the entrails and ends,

In an air-tight asbestos vat.

From this corrupt mass of intestines and muck

He skimmed the most rancid, I hear,

And took it away to a corner in hell

And from it produced a food profiteer.

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