Monday, October 20, 2008
Pity's Reward
Pity's Reward Mine is a deep, dark hell-hole of pity's reward Where I am kicked a thousand times in the gut Each time followed by the near recovery of spirit before the heart's stomach is again punched brutally in It is an anniversary of my last marital failure And lest I forget rejection and its...
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Sunday, October 12, 2008
Change
Change First the one Then the other took up the theme: Things will sure be different. You betcha! Yet in that first test of How And If, Neither leads But falls in behind the much-maligned Without a word or thought Or yet a single wind of change Copyright © 2008 by C. P. Klapper
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Monday, October 6, 2008
We Wuz Robbed!
The "Deal" is a raw one and a disastrous one, as the Asian and European easily recognized, with the NYSE giving its assessment today: DJ IND DOWN 369.88, NYSE COMPOSITE DOWN 334.03. With more to come... Meanwhile, the US Treasury is gearing up for the auctioning off of massive amounts of Treasury...
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Friday, October 3, 2008
A Letter to my Congressman
Dear Congressman Palone, I forgot to say why voting for the $700 Billion bailout would be disastrous. The way that our banking system and treasury are structured, this wasted money will have to be paid either through taxes or by borrowing. Either of these in an already fragile economy will sink us...
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Wednesday, October 1, 2008
Please Buzz My Story!
I put my Third Bank and the AEMs story on Yahoo! Buzz and need help in buzzing it up. Thank you, Carl Peter
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Thursday, September 25, 2008
What I Believe In
What I Believe In "What do you believe in?" They ask me And wait to dispute To replace my poor answer With their own rich one To confound me with their reason To which my faith must succumb And bow before their superior intellect And as they listen To the words they put in my mouth I disobey their...
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Tuesday, September 23, 2008
The Rat Captains
The Rat Captains The brazen and self-anointed Captains of Finance Have led the fleet aground on the shoals They were so sure that they knew The lay of every land and sea From the maps they read in school: To build software systems, To govern a state, They boasted they can sail quickly through Into...
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Friday, September 19, 2008
Book Reading/Signing
date: venue: location: website: added by: September 28, 2008 03:00PM The Raconteur Bookstore 431 Main Street, Metuchen, NJ, United States http://booktour.com/author/carl_peter_klapper C. P. Klapper
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Saturday, September 13, 2008
Rain
Rain The harsh rain of cricket chirps Descends upon my ear Scrubs with hundreds of grating calls The serenity of the stormless night Is this their plea or is it mine To rinse away discord The scars and pain of ceaseless strife Their screams for the showers' healing calm Yet the deluge of waters...
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Thursday, September 4, 2008
Mixed Blessings
Mixed Blessings My heart is so equivocal When it should be wildly rejoicing But the mild joy can be safely public While I must wrap in secrecy That in which I most delight And even for a private celebration My own fortune is discordant That mine is a strange conflicted dance Restrained from leaping...
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