Modern Economy
People have figured out you
Can just take things
And no one will stop you
So they seize the spoils
With savage guile,
Work the angles,
Leverage inside knowledge
For hostile takeovers.
Add a dollop of venture capital
And pounce on a ground floor IPO.
Flip a distressed property
For a handsome profit,
For ever larger slices of pie
And then the whole pie, unsliced,
Leaving for the rest of us
Crusts fallen half eaten to the floor.
No one goes to jail
Only winners left standing
I miss a world where people
Left their doors unlocked at night
Hoping someone would
Sneak in and steal their heart.
They’d surrender it willingly
And when it was gone
Mourn they couldn't give more.
1/17/22
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