Perhaps the crash of twenty-nine
came from a trickling up the line
of laborers who sent their cash
to Wall Street, turning in their stash
from the mattress or the coffee tin.
Investing with the richest men
in hopes they'd pay back even more
was just a pipe-dream of the poor.
The proof was something of a joke:
only the rich did not go broke.
(Originally published in New Verse News, 2012)
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