From in front of the St. Mark’s in the Bowery Church, across the street from where I used to work in NY and down the street from the once-wonderful (and now gone) 2nd Ave Deli (who made the best liverwurst and onions sandwich in. the. world. ever.) Rev. Billy offers a fabulous prayer for the salvation of soles in the face of the shopocalypse …
Pray that it does not happen here…where…
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.