SCURRYING BETWEEN TIME SEALED VAULTS.

Taken from tenth issue of 325 Zine:

TATTOO

(to the sound of Greek bagpipes)

Today, the Greek Government

executed by firing squad

1000 pensioners, along

with 2000 workers, as part

of a package of financial

reforms, to reassure

the markets and permit

the Troika to release one

more tranch of the bail-out.

How one feels for the victims

In all this, the bankers

criminalised, shorn

of bonuses, the markets

bearish, nervous as

kittens, the green back,

the pound, the tsunami-

floating yen, scurrying

between time-sealed

vaults and safe-havens,

exposed to the sniping

of credit default swaps

as Molotov cocktails

rain down relentlessly

from Fitch’s, Moody’s,

and S.& P.’s. Will

the friendly Troika

contrive fresh reforms?

Will our young friend,

the euro, be vaporised?

Growth is a must, come

what may, be it 3000

health workers hung,

drawn and quartered,

4000 firemen burned

at the stake, even

the odd politician garrotted.

Landeg White

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