Jawboning
by Norman Ball
Recession. That's a word they're loath to say,
the men whose jobs revolve around the myth
that words, like sticks and stones, put trends in play
not easily reversed. They'll take the fifth
before reciting populist accounts
as though hard times held under house arrest
might cower in the basement. All that counts
is what gets counted --keep the bloody rest!
No gesture pays for braces. No harangue
can cure the blind of pathologic greed.
Econometric models lack the pang
of hunger. How the poor excel at need!
Recession means no money, simply put
--a truth too bare to snag a tailored suit.
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©2008
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