Inventory


  Yet another Black Monday.
  Yet another stock market crash.
  Yet another fall.
  Yet another psychological depreciation
                                of the value of my mind,
                                                      of my soul -
                                                                my only real assets,
                                                                     in this forever troubled economy,
                                                                             in this forever turbulent world.
                                                                                 Oh, this forever turbulent world.
  I never,
     never had any real chance
                                     to soar in it.
  Still now I plummet.

  Still now I fall.


February 21, 1997