For NAME Poetry Contest Sponsored by: Brian Strand
Adam Smith is a great moral philosopher,
Dear great big father of modern economics,
And very big supporter of freedom of markets
Magnificent main figure in economic thoughts
hip hop grief
no code enforcement, she loud inside the outs of krogers
calling in her blame,, ,5,0, silent trooper, undered the statey
husband codes like adam smith gettin babs seat
Momentum on the Streets p=mv profit=momentum*volume
“How much do you get?”
“What’s the pay…..
What’s the pay off he said
Not speculating today
Feels great
This location is inside of you
Sugar bored and wont talk
Never through it all a way for a block
Out of my bourbon
Soo clean eyes will come
A thousand armies and a thousand moors
Until you never loud inside my opened poors
Better production—
an index of economic growth:
Whatever be our model of production,
Whatever notion of the human it is built on,
On whether s/he is rational,
As for Aristotle, Adam Smith and Amartya Sen,
Or irrational, as for Nietzsche and Richard Thaler,
Sustainability must be the key word.
Better thinking or resolve leads to better production,
And is sustained by better feeling,
Not by raw, transitory emotions.
A New Year resolution, for instance,
is often triggered by reason.
And if sustained by the feeling that
We are happy about making it
And that we will be satisfied with its outcome,
It is sustained.
Otherwise it easily evaporates.
What is suggested here is a little solution
in this postmodern space—
of little narratives.
***
When he returned home
It was four years past
There were bands playing
And the families were glad
For the returned Diggers
Were also sons, brothers and lovers
And the years were long
At times they were filled with tears
It was 1919 and the Great War was over
But not everyone was there
In the Port Adelaide docklands
My best friend had fallen
And his mother made me promise
That I would look after him
But a German shell had done for him
I saw her standing there alone
And I couldn’t look her in the face.
© Paul Warren Poetry
From a soldier's recollection in Patsy Adam-Smith, The ANZACs"
What a superb line-up for you tonight ladies and Gentlemen
For your entertainment and delictation tonight
There’s kind old Adolph with Mien Kampf
Monsieur Adam Smith presents The Wealth of Nations
Joseph Smith speaking guided in Reformed Egyptian
Presenting Jesus he cannot write but lets go plenty who can
L Ron Hubbard Dianetics: The modern science of mental health
Bearded wise Karl Marx presents Das Capital
Another Beard! Yes it’s old favourite God with the Bible Old and New
Oh and here we go! The Lovely Mohammed with the Koran
Enjoy!
What a superb line-up for you tonight ladies and gentlemen
for your entertainment and delectation tonight
you’ll remember these acts for the rest of your life
Most of your favourites here tonight
Monsieur Adam Smith presents The Wealth of Nations
Joseph Smith with Jehovah gold plates and a gun shoot out
L Ron Hubbard Dianetics the modern science of mental health
my minds spinning already
bearded the wise Karl Marx presents Das Capital
Wait almost forgot kind old uncle Adolph with Mien Kampf
Another beard - fashions do come and go !
yes it’s our old favourite God with the Bible Old and New
Jesus what ! such promise - lets go !
And here we go! the lovely Mohammed with the Koran
no follow up act surely !
his followers are all charged up
Its explosive !
Enjoy!
count on it...
that numbers made the world
we came to believe
after all ten digits
long ago ran out
and we stuck our toes into the fray
to count and be counted anyway
and they too ran out
a foot at a time
and numbers became stuck to
our rulers feet or by meter,
our sole, soul repeater
then we counted awhile,
and soon wired some beads
to a wooden frame
'cause, unconsciously we knew
it'd never be the same
and abacuses counted because
Sumerians knew the power of
columns of orders of magnitude to
give counting a certain, amplitude
and soon balances were forged and
everything compared to something else -
grain to sheep,
sheep to amphora,
amphora to slaves,
slaves to children
children to wives
neighbors lives to our own lives
covetousness counted as
a capital idea
long before Adam Smith
or any form of mercantilism
came to bear witness on a weakness of man
yet who can count on power
is there a conversion factor
that shows more or less
that less is more than some detractor
what's the ratio of
desire to need to
redemption to volition to
love to life -
there's a number of ways to count it
© Goode Guy 2013-04-11
Starring Tonight
What a superb line-up for you tonight ladies and gentlemen
for your entertainment and delectation
Here is kind old Adolph with Mien Kampf
monsieur Adam Smith presents The Wealth of Nations
L Ron Hubbard Dianetics The modern science of mental health
bearded the wise Karl Marx presents Das Capital
Another beard! Yes it’s old favourite God with the Bible Old and New
Jesus what such there a promise - lets go !
and here we go! The Lovely Mohammed with the Koran
No act to follow !
Enjoy!
polydactyl fractals
and digital manipulation
like "fat fingers"
pushing "astroturf" clods
and "usefull idiots" onto the street
into the traffic
goose stepping in lockstep
against what they're for
unaware
their prophets decrying profits
(historically elite)
the politburo oligarchy
with power
from the barrel of a gun
and needing Adam Smith
to eat
but oh well
what's a few hundred million
citizens
between fiends?
What a superb line-up for you tonight ladies and Gentlemen
For your entertainment and delictation tonight
There’s kind old Adolph with Mien Kampf
Monsieur Adam Smith presents The Wealth of Nations
L Ron Hubbard Dianetics: The modern science of mental health
Bearded wise Karl Marx presents Das Capital
Another Beard! Yes it’s old favourite God with the Bible Old and New
Oh and here we go! The Lovely Mohammed with the Koran
Enjoy!
Adam Smith battles
With Karl Marx, desecrating
This beautiful world.