Best Inflation Poems
Click, Clap, Ego Inflation
They sit behind the veil of screen
thinking cheating is a site unseen
each clap a cheer that was never earned
everyone laughs, for the spotlight is on
shining light on the fraudsters pen
vain deceit
ghostly stats floating in silent scorn
their own applause, no one cares
what is a Baker
if your bread is stale and unsold
your store is empty
a hollow soul
cheaters cheat, they never glow
Feeling catish this morning, surrounded by Zio lies and cheating is easier for me to see when happens elsewhere too, peace be upon you.
A hundred dollars was more than enough
To buy all my groceries and stuff
The bagboy doesn't stock it
For it fits in my pocket
A hundred dollars for spam is too rough
Ytb! Ytb!
We are here again
The sokaklar are not safe anymore
The pride in us is slowly disappearing out there
Ytb ytb, have you heard about inflation?
Lütfen explain to us ytb
The prices are no match out here
The lira is sequencing like polymerase chain
The cost of all kinds of stuff is reaching its peak
Happening like a lightning streak
Ytb nasil yapacagiz bilmiyoruz
The dollar blow is like an impregnable strike
The pockets are drying up faster than unexpected
The Alisveris Merkez is no longer our commonplace
Ytb, things are changing before our eyes
The math is challenging out here
Simit is now 3tl, çay is no longer our morning ilaç
The kebap is no longer affordable
Ytb! That çorba is now 10tl
The buck in 2016 is now worth 7 lira
How you did it haberim yok
But we think its kind of shifty ytb
I hear the sokaklar are tense with dollars
The Reis believe the opposite of textbook notes is true
Merak etmeyin he says
But you know ytb, we are not Rumplestiltskin
Maybe you should ask Captain Hook how he did it
I Rise
I open the windows of my humble adobe
I breathe in the mountain air
I make a pot of coffee
Then read the News...
Recession, inflation
Homeless, addiction
Waste on our streets
Men and women on the mall
Lead in the air
Another one falls
Rifles galore
Rockets hit Kyiv
Russia waring
Men take aim, insanely proud
Little ones dying
Africa starving
Immigrants waiting
Refugees seeking
It makes me ill
I open the windows more
I breathe in the mountain air
I see deer in the meadow below
I am the Zimbabwean Trillionaire(inflation)
Oh! Where did they go wrong?
Now i am walking as i like in their country
I have invited my trusted friends,
Billionaire and millionaire
All zeroes everywhere, they are trying to cut me off
What they dont know is,I am here to stay
I am a Zimbabwean Trillionaire, yes I am!
I am valueless, so they say
Disorder is my order
My bestfriend sanctions has secured my stay
I am not going anywhere whether you love me or not
I am the Zimbabwean Trillionaire
Diamonds my worst enemy keeps you all disillusioned
All this dollarisation restricts my walk of freedom
I am the Zimbabwean Trillionaire
I am a Patriot , i am here to stay
Zimbabwe is my home for the time being.
All hope lost, i hear your cries
You hate me and you want me to go
But i am also a Zimbabwean now
No nation will allow me in
I am now Zimbabwean by naturalisation
I am a Zimbabwean trillionaire and I am here to stay.
Tawona M Ranganawa
Inflation
What’s going to become of us my dear
The cost of living’s filling me with fear
No using the cooker, it costs too much
Can’t heat our rooms up as we’ll become bust.
It’s not how I desired that we should live
How has life on earth come to such as this
Food is essential not just for pleasure
So is a warm home in the cold weather.
We're approaching the winter of our days
I had hoped we’d be well blessed for always
They do say that love keeps one warm and snug
Cold and hunger’s no recipe for love.
I vowed to love you for better or worse
But who can survive with an empty purse
We must endeavour to tighten our belts
Abstaining same as most everyone else.
I'm so lost for words of comfort sweetheart
If I could I'd stop things falling apart
They say the price we pay for love is grief
Inflation is thief of one's sleep relief.
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10th March 2023
A paper road and car of clay,
A garden made from pencil shaves;
With fields of crayon flowers drawn,
Beyond the shoebox house and lawn;
Old wax paper forms the boat,
That sails under a cardboard moat;
A fence made out of new toothpicks,
Erasers used as driveway brick.
A crafty home in taped décor,
Now sat atop my basement floor;
A dynasty of paper trails,
Completed with a sign, “For Sale”,
Was printed in the Classifieds,
To see who’d purchase such a buy;
One hundred callers did implore --
The only place they could afford.
Gift Shops
crowded
few sales
recommendation
when you will have inflation
causes inflammation
Dollar bills flying out of the air
Trillions for all of us to share
Best send some more
The fast food store
Took a million for my dinner there
Pennies, nickels and dimes
no longer take up our time
Even a quarter's value falls shorter
~ no longer buys cheap valentines
One problem with gasoline is, it smells
Another is, prices are high as hell --
But a real good friend of mine
Pays just a buck forty-nine --
Says he stocks up daily at Taco Bell
A basic cause of inflation is an economic reality
Which has little to do with prevailing political ideology,
Rather it is rooted in elementary consumerism
And stopping it depends on a proper methodology.
Demand for a specific commodity goes out of control
When there is far more demand than availability.
Simply, a shortage of supplies to meet the demands
The higher price that short commodity commands.
A shortage of goods caused by supply chain woes
Made huge numbers of commodities scarcer, you see
And those vendors who could raised their prices,
So many things cost more than they had previously.
Fears oil-producing countries might not meet needs
Lead to major oil companies raising prices per gallon.
Indeed, some gouging no doubt elevates our concern
Some commodities also purposely held up, we learn.
Consider, some major corps are making record profits
And there seems no lack of the commodity they sell
Particularly pharmaceuticals have an increasing market
They can regulate the number of pills produced, do tell.
So inflationary prices, in this specific case, are artificial
Check out the earnings/loss statements of drug moguls.
You will do a slow burn discovering this manipulation
Producers won’t admit their fault for spiraling inflation.
Inflationary trend is designed to destroy the middle class
The rich can afford to pay more for what they indulge
While the middle class struggles to afford the necessities,
But don’t expect astute politicians this fact to divulge.
They will raise the federal interest rates promising relief
But commonsense tells us that, too, hurts the little man.
Unfortunately, we have also farmed out manufacturing
So, we have lost commodity control to stupid posturing.
Written May 14, 2022
[along with a degree in American history,
I have studied graduate level economics.
There is much more to inflation, but we
must not overlook basic consumerism.]
Earth has no special vantage point
Even in the Milky Way village
We see as we would from Andromeda
Scientists do measurements, math
But none knows the when, why, who?
At the start, before Laws, before big bang
Now, if expanding universe, speeds up too
The when and why become clearer
After the first quarter of 12 billion years
The mass in dark energy exceeded all
So, it seems each universe sits atop
A black hole, warping in time space fabric
As do each universe, every universe
And it could go on for Eternity
Excuse me Dr. Guth, but cosmic inflation
Sounds like explanations, yet confusion
Why all laws of physics would go away
So you might give us a bang in the big bang
The consumer is said to be
The all-right-man
But it hardly exists
Hegemony is never welcomed
Consumer too has to obey regulations
Follow SOP
On a visit to shops
When buying goods
Has to bear the result of inflation
Prices soaring up high
Subject to tricks and dishonesty
of businessman
A win-win-situation is welcomed instead
The world is made for everyone
To survive