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Finding Balance: Access To Loss and Profit




After crashing corporate frauds
Conflated financial collapses
Those left, the experts say, are
 " ... the bones strewn on the beach"
or "naked swimmers left standing
after the tide's gone out."

They are the tried
And trusted ones

When the overflated
Deflated
Greedy commercial world dot con
Bubble of unreal wealth
Blows up in grey faces
Of our hungry well-fed
Aerated
compost of civilization

to find renewal
In a changed and
changing culture

Where through self-doubt
Spilled blood and
Penniless pain

The almighty dollar
quite clearly
provides no spiritual gain.



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©barbaraataylorjuly2002