15,536. IN A SUPERMARKET

 IN A SUPERMARKET

In a supermarket everything

conspires to put food in a bag;

in a candy store, to put mints

in a jar. In a tavern, it all goes

off to put beer in a pint-glass;

things just hover like that.

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Are there enough changeable

manners and patterns to alter

the ways of the world? The

weatherman is half right half 

the time; the stock market

brays when things go bad,

and rises for days. When

good news finally happens,

the market tanks.

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The guys on Wall Street say,

'The Market hates uncertainty.'

I say bullshit to that, the market

is perverse and thrives on peoples'

ills. Woes accumulate, and the

securities guys get rich. That

pencil up their ass? May

they sit on it.