Our Present Situation: Eight Haiku

Cherry blossoms in

Washington bathe frightful deeds

in springtime beauty.

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Firms too big to fail

savor scent of roses from

Treasury’s garden.

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No systemic risk

too dark a cloud for Congress

to make darker still.

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Government jobs cause

illusion of revival –

mirage in desert.

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Big banks take their ease

in fields of new-sown clover.

Fine friends ease worries.

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Dear Leader’s voice like

thunder in hot afternoon.

Storm comes very soon.

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Bernanke stays calm.

He has proper “tools” to curb

deluge we now dread.

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River flows smoothly

toward renewed opulence;

then the cataract