Frightened Little Men

One of the biggest meetings ever of the world’s top economic heavies took place this past weekend in Saudi Arabia. Finance ministers, oil sheiks, bankers, corporate CEOs, ever a few government heads, assembled to reassure the world that sky-high prices for energy could be kept under control. So why were so few people reassured?

Frightened Little Men

They met to shape our daily lives
It’s basics and its graces,
Our economic masters
From near and distant places.

The media were reverent
Let speakers posture, preach,
They would (’twas hoped) devise ways to
Keep energy in reach.

But as I watched quite carefully
I saw what I had feared,
These masters of economies
Are little men—and scared.

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