The Goddess of Wealth

By Joseph Balletti

Book Overview

The opening paragraphs: People were living in plastic bags and cardboard boxes filled with used needles, crack vials and broken bottles. They wandered in hopeless circles dressed in filthy rags, dumped out of mental hospitals to bail out banks. The streets are paved with shit-smeared gold. The dead television light of Reagan's Morning in America was not worth waking up for. This was the place that Daisy and I came to after our college of parties, mansions and gardens. New York City, Lower East Side, late 1980s: brutal and in your face, but it had its certain allure. Hammer of the gods. When I looked around this is what I saw...ghetto kids, malcontents, and misfits, caught between love and hate; caught between life and death. Lost sheep bearing the teeth of starving wolves. Illiterate street poets writing love poems on their arms with dirty needles. They sensed some hidden god's judgment but kept the demons in plain sight. Voiceless and crying in the wildernessFrom chapter fourteen: "One of the heinous yuppie producers at work had a hard-on for the war and in a desperate attempt to ingratiate himself to the boss, sent a memo suggesting that everyone call the owner "General." We laughed right in his face and tore his suck-ass memo up but it showed how willing many people are to become militarized. What a sense of purpose it gave them They wanted war It would be something juicy to watch on TV."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1481054295
• ISBN13: 9781481054294
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 170 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.3" x 8.0"