Jardim de Éden

There was a shanty town, in Luanda, in Angola,
called Iraque. One day the soldiers came. Not
government soldiers. Construction company soldiers.

From corrugated house to corrugated house
they forced the people out, and sent them with their bundles
down the road to nowhere. These were the soldiers

of the Garden of Eden company. The company
needed the land to build luxury housing.
They are building their gated Magnolia Grove.

Run for your lives! The builders are coming!

The corporate army of the Garden of Eden
is a small militia. Just big enough to clear
a village or three. The big battalions are elsewhere.
Ten thousand of the soldiers in Iraq are corporate.

Support our brave boys in the company forces!

The reading is from the Book of Avarice.

1. And God saw that there were wretched people dwelling upon the land
where He had purposed to establish a Garden.
2. And the Lord God determined to cast out all that dwelt there.
3. And angels with mighty swords went among the people, and every
man, woman and child of that tribe was cast out.
4. And the Lord Jehovah established a Garden, with many trees and
flowers of many hues, and having mighty gates and strong fences.
5. And He saw that it was good, and called it real estate.

We are sad but proud. They gave their lives that others might be rich.