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A Dyspeptic's Guide To Contemporary American Politics (In Verse)

Fifteen Feet Beneath Manhattan by Michael Silverstein

"Nowadays, you can't turn on the TV without some talking head telling you about the economy. Yet, in a world overrun by 'analysts,' only one man has the guts, the brains, and, quite frankly, the poetry to put it all in perspective.That man is Michael Silverstein... Silverstein is a true intellectual." — Gersh Kuntzman, The New York Post

"Few people have found much to laugh about in the stock market this year. Michael Silverstein is the exception. The Bard of the Bourse can find humor in losing money, globalization and stock options." — USA Today
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William Blake’s "Tiger, Tiger" is about a mighty force with the power to do great harm if it ever emerges from the forests of the night . For some reason that made me think of potential dangers represented by today’s battered U.S. dollar.

William Blake On The Fall
Of The U.S. Dollar

Dollar, dollar, falling fast,
How long can this downturn last?
Can we just this slide dismiss,
While the world our dollars diss?

Traders of our currency,
These days don’t like what they see;
They look at our thirst to borrow,
Think it bodes much future sorrow.

If the cause of dollar woes,
A huge debt that grows and grows,
Should the markets send askew,
What might Greenspan have to do?

Come a dollar panic scare,
Though it’s an election year,
The Fed will act, it can’t abide,
Here there is no room to hide.

To quell fear they must raise rates,
Nothing else such fear abates;
What a costly ministration
For the Bush Administration!

Dollar, dollar, falling fast
How long can this downturn last?
Can we just this slide dismiss
While the world our dollars diss?

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© Michael Silverstein
 

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