Investment Banking
Looking for the niche in the economic ecosystem,
trace position on the n-dimensional hypervolume,
axis running from large to small
profit to market share,
plot needle-like focus against wide-ranging scope
public against private
team work against star power
linear programming maximizes return
return to try
try to understand the understandable
why the business fails
why the business fails to act in its own self interest
why the business fails to maximize the owners wealth
the sum total of wealth
accumulating in unexercised management options
a hidden liability to the corporation
with a fiduciary responsibility to the new owners
who rely on artificially inflated valuations for their 401K
The feudal estate crumbles as
Time chases us all down into the tunnel of self-awareness
where we pace back and forth under florescent lights gleaming off
wet tiles
dripping with condensation as the ventilator hums
the song of the eternal Ohm.
Shut your eyes at exactly the right moment and you
can hear the ocean rumbling in the distance.
A storm is building to wash us all away.
-William Duke
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