Incivilities

Better to live like an options trader awake before the market
begins its metronymic stream and the first scattered symbols undo
the possibility of hope overlapping and circular than pretend style
is an inheritance anyone can use contrasted with the immortality
of currency (while wheat remains commodities are firm)
but disappearing will not serve to memorialize incivilities
weightless as words when you feel the Dow drop 360 points in one day
and the margin call comes close enough to make you weep ICE
moves upon the water thus appears a vast machine constructed only
to bring forth greed tortured by the sound of wind circling the street
as history returns to count the times you’ve failed to buy at price