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10-Archaic Torso

Archaic Torso of the Dodd–Frank Act: An Ekphrastic Poem

Promoting the transparency of oleanders

…a breeze with feeble insight blew

Improving time’s macabre indifference

…another knowledge penetrates you

To end “too big to just meander”

…a breeze with feeble insight blew

Protecting our experience from experiences

…another knowledge penetrates you

To stabilize the universe’s appetite for self

…a breeze with feeble insight blew

To travel at the speed of light, American taxpayers, travel light

…another knowledge penetrates you

The financial crisis of carcinogenic hours

…summer’s chaos took the wheel

A sweeping overhaul, with scarlet spirit

…the snow was laughing

Inspecting jealousy, its secret map and Measles

…summer’s chaos took the wheel

Consolidating galaxies suburbanly astonished

…the snow was laughing

Regulating the dress code angling for our attention

…summer’s chaos took the wheel

Sprinkling Spartan cupcakes with the Volcker Rule

…the snow was laughing

Various measures aimed at flying bears

…each war describes the valley’s independent calm

Undoing significant parts of time, its 95 pale hearts

…a thimbleful of history

Orderly liquidation of the most nebulous rebels

…each war describes the valley’s independent calm

Transfer of posh assassination to the SPSE (Sunlight Pouring with Suicidal Energy)

…a thimbleful of history

Bubbly and arguably, you strengthen corporate governance

…each war describes the valley’s independent calm

Congress soothes, commodities exhilarate and anti-predatory lending (such as acting and dance)

is always the product of some art

…a thimbleful of history

Jack Sheff

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