For Lee Breton

I’m delighted by the velocity of money as it whistles through the windows of      
    Lower East Side
Delighted by skyscrapers rise grungy apartments fall on 84th Street’s pave
     ment
Delighted this year’s inflation drives me out on the street
with double digit interest rates in Capitalist worlds
I’m delighted by double digit interest rates in the Capitalist world
I always was a communist, now we’ll win
an usury makes the walls thinner, books thicker & dumber
Usury makes my poetry more valuable
Manuscripts worth their weight in useless gold—
The velocity’s what counts as the National Debt gets trillions higher
Everybody running after the rising dollar
Crowds of joggers down broadway past City Hall on the way to the Fed
Nobody reads Dostoyevsky books anymore so they’ll have to give 
     passing ear 
to my fragmented ravings in between President’s speeches 
Nothing’s happening but the collapse of the Economy
so I can go back to sleep till the landlord wins his eviction suit in court.