Business Report

And today on Wall Street, sales of Charmin
And Cottonelle continue to rise, as have sales

Of inferior face masks and Purell; a liquidity
Driven rally, with the Midcap Index up and

The 3BTD&L Market showing shares galloping
Ahead vigorously; the Dow Jones Post-Industrial

And the Nasdaq Commodity Exchange have rallied
At .01% and .02% respectively, recovering virtually

All of their pre-COVID losses; weapon sales, mass
Incarceration, surveillance, and pharmaceutical

Profiteering are up, as are homelessness and
Despair; love, romance, and good poetry are down;

Stocks for cremation services and the funeral industry
Continue to rise; liberal sociopathy dipped slightly

At .06% on the S&P, but finished strong, rallying
At 43.5%; coronavirus testing fell to minus 89%,

And contact tracing dipped at minus 437,200%,
With net outflows on the Asian markets, a receding

Of the QBY Index and the STU Bond Exchange –
Showing growth, and promising new investor models

David Penner’s articles on politics and health care have appeared in Dissident Voice, CounterPunch, Global Research, The Saker blog, OffGuardian and KevinMD; while his poetry can be found at Dissident Voice, Mad in America, and redtailedhawk.substack.com. Also a photographer, he is the author of three books of portraiture: Faces of The New Economy, Faces of Manhattan Island, and Manhattan Pairs. He can be reached at 321davidadam@gmail.com. Read other articles by David.