What Happens During a Recession

by Howie Good

At the end of the trading day, the granite pillars crack. Billions of dollars disappear up someone’s hole. The main shopping street is eerily vacant. A sense of inevitable doom hovers. Urbanites have a suicide rate four times the rate for the ancient Hittites. The money god is stretched out on the table and draped as for an operation, with only the shriveled pink bud of his heart exposed.

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Howie Good is a professor emeritus at SUNY New Paltz whose newest poetry books, The Dark and Akimbo, are available from Sacred Parasite, a Berlin-based publisher.