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Thursday, April 23, 2009

WALL STREET-WASHINGTON

by David S. Pointer


The superiority complex
housing sustainable
economic exploitation
has energy escaping
like a scavenger gas
as Wall Street appoints
Timothy Geithner for
bank to bank resuscitation
and nobody clears
poverty's airway
just the pockets
of the global poor


David S. Pointer is a sociologist. Recent poems have appeared in Illya's Honey, Skidrow Penthouse, and elsewhere.