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Morning Headlines, September 30, 2008

 

Collective societal anxiety, panic have set in.

You can see it written all over the nation's face,

Reflected in this a.m.'s newspaper headlines:

 

"DEFIANT HOUSE REJECTS HUGE BAILOUT;

STOCKS PLUNGE; NEXT STEP IS UNCERTAIN"

(New York Times);

 

"Bailout Plan Rejected, Markets Plunge,

Forcing New Scramble to Solve Crisis"

(Wall Street Journal);

 

"Dow plunges 778, parties

point fingers as rescue fails"

(USA Today).

 

Now, everyone's holding his breath,

As if walking as fast as he can, past a cemetery —

Economists, politicians, financiers, Main Streeters.

 

That nobody seems to know what comes next —

Whether it'll be mystery meat in a soup kitchen

Or selling pencils in a cup —

 

Is more than unnerving, disturbing, heart-stopping,

In light of last year's stratospheric Dow,

Which is now bottom-feeding at murky fathoms.

It's mystifying, stupefying, far worse.

Soon, a rolling suicide pandemic, like a tsunami,

Will crash onto all the shores of the earth.

 

 

 

 

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