One has great faith in this electronic age
to ride the world recession. After all,
everything is accomplished in an instant,
unlike the old days, when news was slow,
insider dealing a feat using telescopes;
then came ticker tape technology in the stock
market, lagged by intervals in relayed info -
we see them scurrying around in the old
black and white records of the crash - panic,
suicides; but today, everything is done and over
in a flash - the electronic pace of immediacy
forestalling panic, the trends registered instantly
on flat screens in zig-zag, spot decisions
by world leaders enabled, billions wiped out
replaced in an electronic blink, already the forecast
set, the turnaround is here: they talk
of years of recovery, but that is cant, everything
is geared to electronic comprehension, and
that is fast, the wizardy of circuitry the highway,
the speed of light real time - we're there!
