[Newspoetry] Greenspan foresees buck-cycle upswinging...

[Donald L Emerick]

* Moral lesson for new Greenspan economic cycles.
* What a good FED should say to usury-greed-lenders,
* Who borrow at 1.5, but lend at twenty-plus percent;
* Who beg from Congress lender laws more than fair,
* Which are also, at once, less than fair to borrowers,
* Who beg of Congress loans when poor times come,
* But who never forgive even one of their own debtors...

Thus spake Zeta's Deo-ribbing New-clay, Acidly...

And you shall let this be as a sign for life in you:
Two serpents shall be wrapped round each other.
As if some serpent, by recoil, was one, being two.
Each swallows up a leading tail of its anti-brother.

Listen not to some single sensible hissing snake
Whose sentient soul strings us symbols sibilantly;
One single building block alone shall you not take
To square a sky when arches may shine brilliantly.

Rainbows over ark promise no more storm of war
Shall flood land: unbend all knees as hand unfists.
Beware when no echoes in colored arches uproar,
Deafened by one-sided conformity's shouting mists.

Any breaching arc must intertwine through us twice.
Each pair circles what first arc law does command:
Every creature -- flying, creeping, crawling -- entice
By twos.  On board, they will meet as you demand.

And what may you do, lord of nature, to the sheep?
A man once owed vast sums of money to a lender.
But his debt was simply too great for him to keep
Payments up, while yet free to live on legal tender.

Fearing a debtor's prison, borrower asked for time:
"Forgive and give me, Lord; extend terms of loans."
Lender said: "Oh, fellow man, to forgive is sublime,
To err is divine.  You're free to study better koans."

Now, after this, erst-debtor, faced the same scene,
Reversed.  S said "Neither borrower nor lender be,"
Knowing that debt turns any isosceles to scalene,
Where side-angles fight over size-ordering mastery.

Did erst-debtor go to likewise do?  No, as a knave,
Or, as a total ass, he seized every asset in sight
And, as that was not enough, jailed as debt-slave,
A similar one who seemed so much less in right.

When lender lord heard this twisted follow-up tale,
He hunted down erst-debtor to tell him that mercy
Remains conditional:  I would be forgiving you well,
When and only when you do so without vice-versy.

"As do ye to those others, so to ye shall it be done,
Measure for measure, by like cases shall ye decide.
The animal case for those like sheep is yet this one:
Beware as you sacrifice; you shall die as a deicide."

Each revolution turns us inside out as if to restore
Some sense of balance where ruler now corrupts.
While justice lacks no lackeys, it yet holds more
In store, reserving, severing greed-heady abrupts.

Thanks for listening
Donald L Emerick

**** Lines excluded above, I annex below.
**** It seems but a waste of words to throw
**** Them away on a scrap of paper, notes
**** That mean to speak of ill-gotten votes.

**** The quality of mercy is not restrained;
**** As it falls on you, so let it fall from you
**** Like a gentle reign; For others trained
**** To do well as you drink us health, true.

**** If dry grounds up those waters swallow,
**** then there shall be no rains coming due...
**** then there would be no mirroring rainbow,
**** as shows by rhyme only in times is two.

**** Poems obey genetic coda as by codicil.
**** United broken truisms to us do converse.
**** How we shall hold together as in one will
**** When we fall apart with nature in reverse?

**** Tnx 4 l_ing, dle