Tuesday, March 17, 2015

Greed Floats (A Haiku)

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By Daniel Rigney

Like a Baby Ruth  
tossed into a swimming pool,*
greed floats to the top.

*recalling this mock-scatological country club pool scene from the comedy classic ”Caddyshack” (1980), a film satirizing American class privilege.
The film opened the same year Ronald Reagan became President-elect of the United States and ushered in the nation's second Gilded Age, an age marked by a loosening of restraints on financial greed and extreme concentrations of wealth.The rest is history.

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