After All, the Market Runs on Greed

November 8, 2016

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. This week’s theme is politics in honor of Election Day (USA), which falls on November 8.

Today’s poem is about the shortcomings of a number of political choices.

I welcome comments on my poems at http://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com.

Yours,

Nick Gordon

After all, the market runs on greed,

The sunlight of this social ecosphere,

Self-adjusting as supply and need

Set prices to the tune of hope and fear.

The state can intervene, of course, but then

The Capitol might well outgreed the Street,

Playing games with games beyond its ken,

Positioned where the votes and money meet.

What to do? We've tried Utopia,

A nightmare far, far worse than any dream,

Strangling the source of cornucopia,

Sacrificing millions to a scheme.

We are born into a world of sin,

Which if we just accept, we die within.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at http://www.poemsforfree.com/after3.html . For more poems about politics, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/politicalpoems.html.

This week’s theme: Politics.

November 7: Elections, as You Know, Are Bought and Sold

November 8: After All, the Market Runs on Greed