Financial bungle – Sometimes I blunder
nearly take the nation under.
Financial bungle – Sometimes I blunder
nearly take the nation under.
Gangsters’ cash everywhere
in the safe and on the stairs.
We launder dirty money ‘cause we just don’t care.
The folks at HSBC
make narco smuggling easy.
They won’t get caught. They got friends in DC.
Don’t push me ‘cause I’m close to the hedge
fund. I’m trying to make more bread.
Financial bungle – Sometimes I blunder
nearly take the nation under
We took the public’s money, rejected further rules.
We do what we want, play the voters for fools
We won’t pay a fine, won’t go to jail.
Me and my bank are too big to fail
so call me a dog, call me a beagle.
I got Phil Gramm to repeal Glass-Steagall.
Don’t push me ‘cause I’m close to the hedge
fund. I’m trying to make more bread.
Financial bungle – Sometimes I blunder
nearly take the nation under
Your mom on retirement, been days since she ate
‘cause the crooks at LIBOR rigged the interest rate.
You can’t find a job. Wallet’s light as neutrinos
‘cause we play global markets like giant casinos.
We take the winnings while you pay the loss.
Worship free markets no matter what the cost.
Don’t push me ‘cause I’m close to the hedge
fund. I’m trying to make more bread.
Financial bungle – Sometimes I blunder
nearly take the nation under
Host of the Gelato Poetry Series, instigator of the San Diego Poetry Un-Slam, and an editor of the San Diego Poetry Annual, Jon Wesick has published over two hundred fifty poems in journals such as The New Verse News, Pearl, Pudding, and Slipstream. He has also published over fifty short stories. Jon has a Ph.D. in physics and is a longtime student of Buddhism and the martial arts. One of his poems won second place in the 2007 African American Writers and Artists contest.
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