Freedom to Fail

Welcome back

the boom's bust

and 

reach for the sky.

The bourgeois highwaymen

mounted up 

and rode disorder

riot through 

the leveraged streets

with a balance sheet.

They put a gun

in the mouth of mayor

and purloined absolution.

See shell games 

and see shells whistle

at the front 

where capital 

goes over the top

in fixed bayonet assault

at labor.

Compounded interests

withered the holdings

and held out 

the collection plate.

The state 

breaks like a wave

and brings tides 

of liquidity 

to the shores 

of these trusts.

Crises of consumption

and speculation

and absurdity

are capitalism's comet.

Marketed freedom 

and the apocrypha 

of private property

brings with it

the freedom to fail.