[Newspoetry] DOWn

[Joe Futrelle]

DOWn

I.

There once was a stock market index
whose glass ceiling needed some Windex

      under autumn skies
      IBM [you BM, we all BM -- ed.] faltered, Bush-like
      The Sun rose ten bucks

leaving investors chagrinned, ex-
bulls skinned,
noses contorted downwind

II.

Ten thousand points
of darkness occlude
stumpitches built on
bulls' shitfalls,
Alan Greenspan's Weird
Nightmare of un-un
employment and decent
wages.  Some prosperity,
Al; no better time to
invest social security
in tech stocks, W.

III.

May your stocks plunge so fast that
by the time the halt triggers they've hit zero
and the Forbes 500 will look like this:

person            net worth ($)       job
----              ------              ------
Bill Gates        28                  Food service
Larry Ellison     25                  Food service
Paul Allen        24                  Janitorial
Warren Buffet     23                  Food service
Gordon Moore      22                  Hauling
Philip Anschutz   22                  Recycling
Steve Ballmer     21                  Panhandling
The Waltons       78 (combined)       Dishwashing, Janitorial
Michael Dell      17                  Lawn care

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Joe Futrelle
Editor-within-chief,
Newspoetry dot com