mammon is the love of money and greed and he's the god of wealth. call it my bernie madoff poem. >> read on. >> o mammon, thou who art daily dissed by everyone, yet boast more true disciples than all other gods together, thou whose eerie sheen gleameth from corpote hequarters and vatican treasury alike, thou whose glittering eye impales us in the x-ray vision of plastic surgeons, the golden leer of televangelists, the star-spangled gloat of politicos -- o, mammom, come down to us in the form of treasuries, annuities, and high-grade bonds, yield unto us those benedict arnold funds, those quicksand convertible securities, even the wet judas kiss of futures contracts -- for unto the least of these thy supplicants art thou welcome in all thy many forms. but when thou comest to say we're finally in the gentry -- use the service entry. >> do you ever go back and say, "oh, that's one of my first children. i mean, i remember -- i've forgotten that kid, but now i realize that it is my poem." >> yeah, i love reading the early poems as much as the late ones. i