Where did the people go? (Kindergarten activity)

Dear people of-a-feather

(Life players of GO,

And Monopoly),

You believers

In the one God

Of commerce,

Congregants at the altar

Of profit - you who receive

The communion of

The blood and the flesh

Of the living sacrificial planet

Transformed by

The omnipotent god of commerce

Into infinite stuff

For mass consumption

At the altar of profit . . .

Cup your hands, children, lacing your fingers,

With the tops your

Third and fourth fingers and pinkies

Pointing down into the sanctuary

Of your cupped palms,

With your pointers forming the steeple,

Thumbs erect and pressed together

For the great front doors of the church.

Repeat after me:

Here is the church ,

Here is the steeple.

Open the doors,

(You "open the "doors" of your thumbs),

And say "See all the people".

(Wiggle your finger-tip-people

When you say this.)

Now close the thumb-doors

And lace your fingers again

Except this time

Your fingers are outside the cup

To form the roof of the church.

Now say: "Here is the church,

Here is the steeple,

Open the doors (open your thumbs).

Where are the people?"

There are no finger-people

Wriggling in the sanctuary!

Good question, right?

Where are all the people?

They're gone!

Maybe they saw the light!