Another poetic gem from TMV’s favorite poet, Michael Silverstein, aka Wall Street Poet:
The front pages of newspapers are filled with horror stories. Then you turn to the business pages and find stock markets soaring. What1s wrong with this picture?
World Reality, Market Dreams
Kim’s N-bombs in Korea erupt,
Stock markets shrug, and then go up.
We’re quagmired in Iraq’s deep muck,
Stock markets shrug, rise higher up.
We blithly nature’s plans disrupt,
Stock markets shrug, their path is up.
The congress viewed, inept, corrupt,
Stock markets shrug, and still go up.
On what strange fruits investors sup,
In what cloud dreaming are they stuck,
That they think present market luck
Will last — let them the dark side duck.
Copyright 2006 Michael Silverstein
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.