Derivative

the sustaining of derivatives

in financial markets

is an aggressive act

against the economic sovereignty

of the people

derivatives represent a tyrrany

and the assassination of economy

derivatives form a coup by the few

for the destruction of production

derivatives conjure a wicked alchemy

and divination of paper over paper over paper

over the rock of security

and the wisdom of the pruning shears

the derivative makes the now of industry

the matter of abstract future

negating the real estate of the past

the derivative is the off-centered fulcrum

that balances paper and gold

where nothing is owned

everything is sold

the derivative is the conma

slipping his stealthy foot in the cracks

of land labor and capital

gouging life savings

through a soft smiling larceny

of fast easy risklessness

where one naked short sighted listlessness

can evaporate a kingdom

even an empire

in one hour

is this your desire

saint augustine

give me chastity but not now

he said

on his way to bed

with the whore of revelation

hand in hand with the obamanation

that maketh desolation

for in her short reign of economic terror

we derive this

that when the horseman he doth send

all the cards will tumble

as our promises crumble in the end