“No Investor or a Broker Be” and other poems
December 4, 2009Jon Brooks Comments OffSome guest poems from the Wall Street Poet’s web site, including
No Investor or a Broker Be
by Karl NeiceNo investor or a broker be
In times when future nigh
As postwar doldrums see
Us through
2025Cash is king, long live its value
Its liquidity, and interest free
When deflation signs can tell you
What your stocky mind can’t seeEconomists Agree!
by Rob GeorgeFolks came from afar just to see
Two Economists who’d agreed to agree.
While the event did take place,
It proved a disgrace.
They agreed one plus one adds to three.
A Toast To Henry Wiggins
by Carter HendersonAt the age of forty he was known to be
A substantial holder of AT&T
He drove about in a foreign car,
And insisted his daughter attend Bryn Mawr
His wife spent her time in the social whirl,
While he paid the rent for a chorus girl.
He took up golf and bought a Great Dane,
And developed a taste for imported champagneAt sixty his life turned completely about,
The stock market crash having wiped him out,
His wife and daughter both left him,
When they discovered the fix he was in,
He eventually drifted down to Skid Row
A place where busted bankers go,
Though his purse was bare, his thirst was chronic,
This time he quenched it by drinking hair tonic.
