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EverydayInvestor (< 20)

Some topical poems (with apologies to Carl Sandburg and WH Auden)

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December 03, 2008 – Comments (5)

PILE the forclosures high in Las Vegas and Bakersfield.
Shovel them under and let me work—
I am the deleveraging; I cover all.

And pile them high in Phoenix
And pile them high in Detroit and DC.
Shovel them under and let me work.
Two years, ten years, and people ask their friends:

What place is this?
Where are we?

I am deleveraging.
Let me work.

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The Banker does what bankers can,
Deeds quite impossible for Man,
But for one prize he shall always yearn,
The Banker has no ability to learn:
Among his grand earthly things,
the emptiness of his soul now stings,
The Banker stalks one last deal,
as in pain around him we all now reel.

5 Comments – Post Your Own

#1) On December 03, 2008 at 10:57 AM, TDRH (99.84) wrote:

somewhere I hear a bird singing. 

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#2) On December 03, 2008 at 11:06 AM, EverydayInvestor (< 20) wrote:

and with apologies to my old professor and WB Yeats:

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COME play with me;     
Why should you run     
Through the empty streets    
As though I’d a gun     
To strike you dead?
Oh I'm just a taxpayer
and you're a bailed-out banker
Run fast or die!         

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#3) On December 03, 2008 at 5:16 PM, Tastylunch (29.93) wrote:

somewhere I hear a bird singing. 

Funny it sounded more like 50's beatnik thing to me

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#4) On December 03, 2008 at 11:05 PM, 50Ozi (< 20) wrote:

It sounded like Ozymandius to me

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#5) On December 04, 2008 at 3:54 PM, mindmuse (96.90) wrote:

Triple rec -worthy!

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