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[Waking]

Mergers and Acquisitions
By Edward Hirsch (1994)

Beyond junk bonds and oil spills
beyond the collapse of Savings and Loans
beyond liquidations and options on futures,
beyond basket trading and expanding foreign markets, the Dow Jones
industrial average,
the Standard and Poor’s stock index,
mutual funds, commodities,
beyond the rising tide of debits and credits, opinion polls, falling
currencies, and signs
for LA Gear and Coca Cola Classic, the signs
for U.S. Steel and General Motors,
hi-grade copper, municipal bonds,
domestic sugar,
beyond fax it and collateral buildups,
beyond mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, hostile
takeovers,

beyond the official policy on inflation and the consensus on
happiness,
beyond the national trends in buying and selling, getting and
spending, the market stalled and the cost passed on to consumers,
beyond the statistical charts on prices,
there is something else that drives us,
some rage or hunger, some absence smoldering
like a childhood fever vaguely remembered,
or half perceived, some unprotected desire, greed that is both a
wound and a knife,
a failed grief, a lost radiance.