Eileen Tabios
The World Is Yours
(i)
when even Bulgarians
pay dividendswhen Eastern Europe
restores housingwhen the Future remains
“rooted in the past”(ii)
Who shall defeat
the giants playing golf
while white proxy cards
get hijacked
by a coke bottler
eliminating 2,000 jobsThe Internet implodes
from calls for the next generation
while Russian cartographers
attack Vanitas SoftwareSap.com rushes
its employee orientations
as the “new economy”
becomes the “new New Economy”Offstage from a dream
a deep voice proclaims
“Soon we will be writing
to formally ask for your support”How to turn information
into cash
while empowering executives
to promote smart energy managementwhen “Mutual Funds”
is clearly an oxymoronwhen Merrill Lynch’s growth funds
post negative yields, year-to-datewhen pork bellies slump
from weakened futuresMust Tupperware return
to the headlinesKatherine Graham
is deadMike Saltzeim no longer spins
Coney Island’s carouselthrough sunlit summers, ice-cold
winters and “lurching changes”
roiling “the amusement trade”-
Mike Saltzeim’s heart has failed.(iii)
Today, in San Antonio and Fresno,
the temperature topped 100 degreesBaseball is demeaned
by calls to broaden the strike zoneMark Wohlers allowed nine hits
and four walks within 5 inningsNor are encores easy
at the British Open(iv)
The Minnesota Twins will swallow
$5 million for Joe MauerThe world is yours
through a laptop:
computers
never
crash
from yearning
for HomeA pathologist embodies logic
by becoming a champion marathoner