'a Bleak House' To the Utmost Degree

It was over in Brooklyn, No, not a Met’s game. God forbid that. “The world was, it was, in some off-hand manner, never meant to go right.” In which the first man jumped. It was all over really, That 12 million people were out of work, There were already poor people, But at this point a man could not just “Whistle off, and march on.” Because he was in the same situation, So he jumped too. It was day after day, That 12,000 people lost their jobs, Wall Street for some was a “Fairy land to visit, but truly it was a desert to live in.” And so the men who lost their jobs didn’t want to go home to their wives, They didn’t want to tell them what happened, So they jumped as well. It was nationwide, That 20,000 companies went bankrupt, The banks went bankrupt, As they trembled in their offices waiting for the inevitable. They got tired of it, so they did anything to “Vary the detestable monotony” A few more jumped, A few more died, All because the found that “The universe makes a rather indifferent parent at times.”