{"id":9249,"date":"2026-02-24T15:38:34","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T20:38:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/?p=9249"},"modified":"2026-02-24T15:44:34","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T20:44:34","slug":"poem-taking-dips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/24\/poem-taking-dips\/","title":{"rendered":"POEM: Taking Dips"},"content":{"rendered":"

Is suspect our typical predatory capitalism is moving more to a casino economy run by fewer and fewer people and corporations. Insider trading in the stock markets and gambling everywhere else will drive economic precarity as we less and less bother to make or do anything in the real world. I suspect the moneychangers\/bookies will rake it in weather anything gets better or worse…<\/p>\n

Taking Dips<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The stock market took
\nA dip
\nAt his word
\nA fool\u2019s errant
\nThe award of profits
\nComing and going
\nAs dumb money
\nGives up on outspoken prophets
\nAnd settles for the moneychangers\u2019 cut
\nThe bookies\u2019 profits
\nPaid either way
\nDown with up
\nAnd up with down
\nThe capitalists\u2019 commission
\nHeartily a crime
\nIn daze like this
\nAristocratic blood
\nLetting austerity poor down
\nIn a system that is
\nIn every weigh feudal<\/p>\n

I like the scene in the movie, Trading Places, where the brokers explain their “bookie” business.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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