Is Wall St. Burning ? A Reality Poem

Oct 17 '08    Write an essay on this topic.


The Bottom Line Gold is good and we need it but too much greed for gold and profit is something else !

Is Wall St. burning ?

See the scampering rats
well-dressed and humongous
that even the Incredible

Hulk turned white with
fright and the gold-teeth
rats cannibalized ate

the IH to just a incredible
white skeleton and Is
Main St. burning ?

See the upright
2-footed pigs that
dressed in $1000

Armani suits and ride
in chauffeured $80,000
limos and go home

to 7 $10 million mansions
and you can't tell or figure
which is who

CEOS and CHAIRMEN
of FORTUNE CORPS.
and big banks

all big rats
all fat pigs
they aren't cool cats

cool cats will not
set fire Wall St.
rats and pigs

the arsonists of Wall St.
Is Washinton and the
White House burning ?

Someone has said
Death and taxes
are constants and given

in life and I add to
that truism that
politicians are always

with us for we must
elect someone to live in the
White House and

elect legislators to occupy
Washington and State Capitols
the politicians are here to stay

reminiscent with historical
Is Rome burning ?
Emperor Nero played

the harp while the city
of Rome was burning
and Nero blamed the

early Christians as setting
on fire the city he himself
had done and

the hungry French masses were
burning mad in 18th century
Give them cake ( not bread )

said the powers-that- be
and they ended up losing their
heads in the guillotine

Is Modern Capitalism burning ?
Life is twists and turns
is ups and downs

is nights and days
summers and winters
prosperity and famine

Wall St. and the World's
economies are the nights
and winters and down

right now but there is dawn
of new day and there is
prosperity again !

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