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Wallstreet Panic

              

"SOS! Mayday! Mayday! Holy living mother of shit!

Jesus P. Leaping-Out-of-Windows-Without-Crutches Christ!"

These are the cries of Wallstreet Panic Snopes,

Mortified about his 2008 no-bonus compensation package —

A far cry from Lehman CEO Richard Fuld's 2007 $35 million

And the $161 million Merrill Lynch paid Stanley O'Neil,

On forcing his ass out the door.

 

Wall Street — Cíbola/Sodom and Gomorrah/Tartarus,

A legalized, unregulated, opaque, shady casino

Owned and operated by Humpty Dumpty Associates Anonymous,

Built on chopstick stilts, high above Gotham,

Between the flaming rivers Phlegethon and Styx,

A flashing-blue-light-special red-light district short on morals,

Long on seventy-two-heavenly-virgin poontang, for the taking.

 

So now what's left for Wallstreet Panic Snopes to do?

I suppose he can always stoop to using his experience

Selling knockoff Fendi and Gucci bags, on street corners,

To the wives of canned financial geniuses, gurus, wunderkinds,

Or always go back home, to Frenchman's Bend, Mississippi,

And, like cousin Flem, unloose, on the local yokels,

An untameable herd of spotted Texas ponies.

 

 

 

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