Here We Have No Harbingers

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Here we have no harbingers,
No hint of what's to come.
We add up all our prophesies,
But cannot find a sum. It's bad, it's bad - that's all we know.
We've spent our legacy,
And now must bear ballooning debt
Through poisonous debris. The engineers and CEOs,
The bankers, brokers, boards,
Accountants and attorneys for
The all-but-knighted lords -- They did all right, those scavengers
Who ravaged lives and lands
To build a rag-tag vessel that
Will go down with all hands.

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Audio and Video Music: Funeral March.
By Frederic Chopin. Music free to use at YouTube.

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