.
...their having stumbled into
a free market wonder
land in which value
had come to seem forever
detached from even the
thought of actual labor,
there grew among the young
men on the street
an assumption that
they could do anything...
Transparent City #12: photo by Michael Wolf, 2008
Transparent City #28: photo by Michael Wolf, 2008
Transparent City #28: photo by Michael Wolf, 2008
11 comments:
I'm not sure if I should find a little humour in this one. But I do. But I suppose it's like laughing at Laurel & Hardy - we are really laughing at our own intrinsic human folly.
Ray,
This bit was stripped out of a longer piece which didn't see the stock and bond traders as comic heroes but as historical villains -- but as you hint, this snippet has them stumbling and then being Alices in Wonderlands uplifted like clowns doing pratfalls one minute then being sent up into air by cannons the next, or uplifted like helium balloons that have slipped tether. The silliness that's the point as you suggest.
I saw a brilliant documentary on BBC last night about people who work in the City of London, you could see how the stock and bond traders were hooked on it all, and how it ate them up. I wonder if to the historians of the future, The Market may seem to be the most dangerous of all the addictive drugs we've had available to us?
Zeph,
Yes, and it's an addiction of which the collateral damage spills well beyond the addicts to include all of us.
For the Soul fact that you don't use so many words, but still convey a message; I am liking. *sigh* I have such a short attention span.
Your words harbour feelings within me of my life lived in LOodon many Moons ago.
And of course the Soul of a reader is the harbour toward which the words would always be hoping to navigate, hoping further then, once having the luck to be landed and unloaded, only to be of some sort of use.
Provoking feelings and memories would do very well.
PS. I lied! Sorry. It was not LOodon, where I use to live, but; London.
This will go down as your first recorded lie though perhaps told in the service of a higher kind of truth.
Another good text Tom, on the theme same as "Who needs Apollo..." (with Ted Berrigan)".
I too look at the money-experts as historic villains.
an assumption that
they could do anything...
Exactly. I get what you are talking about.
It is nice reading you.
my friends are all the sky
God keep you
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