"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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About Silverstein's Verse

 

The war in Iraq will still be taking its horrid toll when next election day rolls around. Issues of corruption, high oil prices, inflation, healthcare foul-ups, and the like will be worrying Americans. But none of this will make much of a difference in determining the outcomes of congressional races. Gerrymandering guarantees that 98 percent of present congressional bunglers will get reelected...

incumbency
(a civics lesson in verse)

in the end, you know, it’s
just being there
and staying there

staying in
place
until death or retirement
or the discovered peccadillo do you part

vegetarians, libertarians, authoritarians
donkeys and elephants
democrats and republican
left,
right,
left-of-center,
right-of-center,
center,
all redundancy

what it’s really all about
is
incumbency.

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