The Stock Exchange at the End of the Universe

Vincent St. Clare 1991 (Austin, Texas)



Deodorant sent them to space
And Richard Branson, to the Moon!
There’s a big box in the pores of Apophis
The stain on the void and the silence and stone
 
Now, the bounced checks make rounds in
Judecca, I’m shaking my head to thaw
My fist; down here spare time has me looking up
One floats by and I spite and spit
I sit and I swig and remember an untouched life
 
For every dime in every cranny of the void
I’ll just count out and
Count on the plain,
Same misery beneath sub-orbit
 
What’s a man to do
But comply with gravity,
Tip back venom
And bitch?

About this poem

Title parodies that of a book by Douglas Adams... Unbridled capitalism commercializes the stars in the wake of a growing space tourism industry which privatizes every atom... and it subsequently destroys their sacredness...

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Written on 2012

Submitted by VincentSt.Clare on January 08, 2022

Modified by VincentSt.Clare on January 08, 2022

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Quick analysis:

Scheme AXAX XXXXX XXXX XXXX
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 560
Words 114
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 5, 4, 4

Vincent St. Clare

Vincent St. Clare is a poet and essayist from suburban New England. He lives an incredibly boring life. more…

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