Ok. I've taken two weeks off but now

I need to get back to the norms of work;

No time to luxuriate or shirk

Responsibilities, for we must bow

Before the need to keep commerce alive -

The wheel of industry and toil which every day

Grinds on to ensure that each of us can pay,

Regardless of our needs to stay alive,

Substantive cash for things we do not want

But all must have, if profits are to rise

And banks and businesses, of a certain size,

Can feed their bonus margins and their kant.

            While smaller fry must close up shop and leave,

            Champagne still pops for subtler forms of greed.

Brian Hick January 2009

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