March 4, 2009 at 12:04:12

America After the Great Bust, 2009

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By Peter Michaelson (about the author)

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The Fed restructures its paper pyramid;/ Capitalism, running naked, scrapes bottom;/ Real estate vacates without a counter-bid;/ Families stay homeless well into autumn.

The global downturn transfers Earth's axis;/ Finance consorts with psychopathic sorts;/ As bankers rig losses by misplacing faxes,/ Good times rot on the docks of idle ports.

Googling Earth, economists fixate/ On the leading coordinates of calamity./ Electronic funds in flight regurgitate/ Surcharges on the use of gravity.

The wily old Dow sells short its know-how,/ (With the Nasdaq also panicked in retreat),/ And glances a moment at the tenets of the Tao/ Before reaffirming the laws of self-defeat.

Our passivity, our nonbeing, remits the Street/ For rash risk and foreclosure's humiliations./ By night we bear the toxic sleet/ Of collateralized obligations.

In truth we see Masters of the Universe/ As galactic raiders who scavenge off it./ To be American is to protest and curse/ Oligarchy that wolfs down death for profit.

Debt-ridden, we can leap into inner space/ Where destiny's heroes are endowed./ Money can't buy perfection's time and place/ Where bust is the one word disavowed.

Peter Michaelson is an author and psychotherapist with a private practice in Ann Arbor, MI. He offers telephone sessions and specializes in marriage and partnership conflict resolution. His blog, books, and PDF files (of his books)are available at (more...)

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