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| Citigroup and the Justice Department have agreed to a $7 billion deal that will settle a federal investigation into the mortgage securities the bank sold in the run-up to the financial crisis. “The bank’s misconduct was egregious,’’ Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. said in a statement. “As a result of their assurances that toxic financial products were sound, Citigroup was able to expand its market share and increase profits.” --NY Times, July 14, 2014 |
“His main man Satan planting the learning trees of consciousness” --Miguel Piñero
And the Devil attended the dance
of the button downs, he was surprised
by their invitation.
God normally attended
their balls.
But God had grown bored.
Extortion,
greed,
fraud,
poverty
had played out their songs,
so God gave way to Satan.
Typical of management, Satan thought
to pass the shit to a farmer of human
sorrow and expect more profit
with the same staff.
He wanted a raise
and a promotion.
Sonya Groves is a teacher of English and History in San Antonio. She has published a short story in the Abydos Education Journal, has poetry publications in La Noria, The Voices Project, Aries, and Cliterature. She has been a conference presenter at the East Carolina University Multi-Cultural Literature Review Conference. Currently she is pursuing her Master’s degree in English at Our Lady of the Lake University.