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Wall Street Poet
Michael Silverstein's
Satirical Verse

The Frat Boy's Legacy

A country...
Whose polity is fractured
With divides he turned to chasms;
One the world now views with horror
Waiting for its next dumb spasms.

A country...
Hooked on public private spending
Foolish short-lived mindless benders;
Turning all to debtor addicts
Prey to whims of foreign lenders.

A country...
Where common sense once triumphed
Clearing all the paths we trod;
Now a place where sense gets sidelined
By bluff  jingo, one man's God.

A country...
Where once all parties recognized
The same good creed, democracy;
Replaced by a new 'rithmatic
There's one decider, and that's me.

A country...
That will look in future eras
At how frat boy played its fears;
At his reckless run of failures
With disgust and anguished tears.

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©2007 Michael Silverstein


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