as people traded sex and precious possessions for rations cards or clean water to drink in the fallen cities , or agreed to years of servitude to the fat man and the fat woman just to put a loaf of bread on the table , as young men and women fought and died for anything that would keep the world running , the fat man and the fat woman sat atop their hoarded goods , their food that they had banned , their booze , their cigarettes and what did they give us ?