Analysis of Profits of lost souls



In the profits of lost souls

A twenty first century global  order
where paper trails all but disappear
and trade moves at light speed through

Complex numbers and feedback loops of uncertainty
in a blink of an eye companies can die
and where nothing seems real at all

Fresh out of college with their MBA’s
young mathematicians
quantify risks in calculus of the mind
of binary systems of information
hedging and shifting derivatives of  
machine driven numbers made mad

Of exploiters predators and prey
of slipping shads and profits in disguise
shock doctrines of deceptions and decay

Through the lucid shadows of terminology
at their device conditioned minds do their bid
market schemes of house of cards
in halls of mirrors and disguise
where transparency there is none

Where interests bleed the wire bare
leaving children with sunken stares
in the aristocracy of our times
when king midis plays Nero’s fiddle
to the burning flames of creative destruction

Metaphors of lust where hungry ghosts turn to dust
short term gains with blinders on the bottom line
cement forests over and destroy our earthly seeds
to darken that which wasn’t dark
turning living clay into warm decay

In endless glut for licking lips
reside in boss tweeds barbarity of austerity
proclaiming ideas of progress with myths of  
markets amidst the wounded fauns

To those nickel and dimed
left stranded condemned to prisons of grime
where whistle blowers don’t dare and corruption
lies bare commodified amidst the pillars of plutocracies
with greasy palms and open pockets

Supply sided for the wealth of nations
where Keynesian's are all but dead
amidst the profit of lost souls  
 


Scheme A XXX BXX ACXDEX FGF BXXGD XXXXD XXXXF XBEA BXDAX CXA
Poetic Form
Metre 0010111 01011001010 11011101 0111111 101001110100 00111110011 01101111 11110111 10010 1010100101 1100101010 1001001001 01101011 1110001 1101010001 1101010001 1010110100 11010101111 1011111 01110001 10100111 11010101 10101101 0001001101 1111110 101011010010 100111101111 11111010101 01101000110101 1101111 1010101101 01011101 0101101001100 01001011111 10010101 111001 1100111011 11010110010 1110101011 110101010 0110101110 111111 01010111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 1,670
Words 286
Sentences 1
Stanzas 11
Stanza Lengths 1, 3, 3, 6, 3, 5, 5, 5, 4, 5, 3
Lines Amount 43
Letters per line (avg) 32
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 124
Words per stanza (avg) 25
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Submitted by sunrasmoondog on June 07, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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