Monday, May 18, 2009

Letter to W.H. Auden


Letter to W.H. Auden

“The virtues he ascribes to Byron are the traits that some critics implied had compromised Auden as a political poet: immaturity, inauthenticity, and superficiality. “Letter to Lord Byron,” however, transvalues such terms to critique the coercive dangers of political art.”—Richard Bozorth, “Politics and Authority in the 1930s,” Auden’s Games of Knowledge: Poetry and the Meanings of Homosexuality

Milton beheld—the first Ponzi scheme
The English Throne—then Papal chair
Bankers & landlords—clerks and Popes
All of them uber-successful—for awhile
When men get greedy—they want it all
Lovely Wall Street greed—and corruption
On Dec 11, 2008—Bernie Madoff confessed
His $65 billion—was just one fucking Big Lie
Ponzi schemes—they say are like chain letters
They don’t last long—but scams never cease
Globalization helps—access to money all over
The world—aided by nefarious technology
Willful ignorance—is the name of the game
Investors never asked Madoff—how it worked
Deregulation—made greed kosher and okay
Many lost everything—funneling to Ponzi Prick
It was the largest—stock fraud in history
Suicides make Plath’s—look rather sanitary
Rich people—don’t like to lose everything
Laissez-faire capitalism—the bedrock of the
Great American economic—Success Story
Is deader than a doornail—it will be tarnished
For several generations—look at the ruins



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