Does the Po-Scene Need a Bailout?
Monday September 29, 2008
The week before last, Poetry (yes, with a capital P) was the vehicle for an Onion satire on government waste... Now the estimable Charles Bernstein has taken the financial crisis as jumping-off point for poetic parody: Poetry Bailout Will Restore Confidence of Readers, reprinted in Harper’s, is his tongue-firmly-in-cheek statement given at the release party for Best American Poetry 2008. Read it and laugh, or at least chuckle ruefully....
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Bailout 2008, a poem by David Jeffrey:
Like a bloodied warrior,
laying broken and torn.
Like a dying soldier, hopeless and forlorn.
But the blood, it be green,
the color of money.
And the soldier is an economy,
and it is anything but funny.
Broken are it’s people and shattered are their dreams.
Thanks to the ultra rich and their full proof schemes.
It is a tragedy with more pain to come.
Finance will be Hell, and their wills will be done.
This poem is awesome. Pretty much describes what is happening in the World right now