“Voodoo Economics” © John Engstrom
Economics 101
The market dropped today
because of an earthquake in Turkey.
Or was it that
the president has a cold.
And there’s a cold snap in Europe
which has sure convinced Americans
not to eat out at McDonalds.
And that coup in South America…
what will it do to Coke sales?
And doesn’t that leave General Motors
in the lurch?
I wonder how the logic
of economists would work in real life.
My second cousin only received
a 2 percent raise at work this year.
There goes my marriage.
The refrigerator needs replacing.
And that means today
T11 be bitten by a dog.
And tomorrow the markets up.
There was no earthquake in Turkey.
The president’s health is fine.
Europe is in a warming trend.
The coup was put down.
And my second cousin quit
for a better paying job.
My marriage is saved.
And I was home when
the new refrigerator arrived
and not out walking.
The dog bit an economist instead.
John Grey is an Australian poet, US resident. Latest books, “Bittersweet”, Subject Matters and Between Two Fires are available through Amazon.
John Engstrom is a writer-artist-poet-critic living in Boston. He has degrees from Boston University and Tufts University. Journalism experience includes freelance writing gigs at the Boston Phoenix and The Boston Globe as an arts critic. His collages have appeared in Oddball and Divergents Magazine. He writes regularly for the Fenway News on cultural subjects, and reads his poetry at many open mikes around the area.