Southerly: The Secret Poetry of Economists
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I am speechless; dumb
Made numb
By the beauty
Of dismal science -
Way too good to be Bollard's work, that's for sure.
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Thank you, Russell...
As you might expect, the author is particularly proud of the last line in poem VI. Possibly one of the best lines of poetry ever written, in my opinion. I expect that (in the future) it will be compared to Eliot's 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock'.
Incidentally, how much better Eliot's poetry would have been if he'd had an economist to help with the editing. 'Sedated' is so much more medically accurate than 'etherized'.
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Way too good to be Bollard's work, that's for sure.
You're obviously not familiar with Bollard's erotic work.
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Way too good to be Bollard's work, that's for sure.
Oh, you doubter, Sacha...
P.S. Russell: I do like the updated version of your poem. The dumb/numb thing works rather well. Have you thought of moving sideways into economics?
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LMAO. Can't wait for the Bollard Annual.
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As you might expect, the author is particularly proud of the last line in poem VI. Possibly one of the best lines of poetry ever written, in my opinion.
For me, that line dragged down the whole collection: it's a transparent attempt to hitch up to the cultural nationalism train. He might as well have written something about tuis, or rain.
The misspelling of "pohutukawa" gives it away.
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VI
I believe being able to distinguish between the numbers four and six may be a prerequisite for an economics career. Still given the last few years, who knows?
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You guys just made me scare the heck out of my nurse. Now she wants to take my lap-top away.
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Yes VI, as Sacha says... but with respect to the last line of poem IV, I suggest that (even there) you have not fully appreciated the brilliance of the poetry.
The line was clearly a conscious act of hitching to the "cultural nationalism train", and the clever irony is revealed by the deliberate mis-spelling. The poet is saying: "Hey, I'm an economist, but I'm also just a man. And, like you, I can't spell".
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Shucks, the George Bush of economists, even.
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The poet is saying: "Hey, I'm an economist, but I'm also just a man. And, like you, I can't spell".
How could I have missed that?
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LMAO. Can't wait for the Bollard Annual.
You bet - though I do hope there'll be some of these kind of mystery-solving adventures of Bollard & his chums, with maybe full instructions for an origami model of the economy, the very thing for a hungover post-xmas afternoon - or just a wheelchair, if that's too much trouble.
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You guys just made me scare the heck out of my nurse. Now she wants to take my lap-top away.
Crikey. Best you steer clear of Super Powered Breasts Are Our Only Hope Against The Evil Fish People then.
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Re: VI -
yep, the final line was good, but still a bit of a comedown. The whole sequence was really building up to the title of VI.
" Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium Modelling"
I mean, come on. You were never going to top that.
Oh, and TS Elliott looked an economist. More so than Bollard. -
Cool. Clips of Under the Mountain too, with an uneasy looking Sam Neill.
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Yes VI, as Sacha says...
Indeed! I would stand and applaud that line if it hadn't already ruined my day.
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I was mildly disappointed you didn't manage to work in a reference to quantitative easing (too obvious?), but I'm otherwise impressed.
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I believe being able to distinguish between the numbers four and six may be a prerequisite for an economics career. Still given the last few years, who knows?
Oh, anything above four is a stimulus package.
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The word "quantitative"
Chatters, clatters through
As if it were a train
And its syllables fretful sleepersBut in your arms
It eases -
I was mildly disappointed you didn't manage to work in a reference to quantitative easing
I beg your pardon, Chris? Poem II was entirely about quantitative easing.
I'm afraid that I don't see an academic position in an English department coming your way any time soon...
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I beg your pardon, Chris? Poem II was entirely about quantitative easing.
I thought it was to do with irrational consumer choice, but what would I know?
Also: I added the word "fretful" to my quantitative easing poem.
C'est fini.
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The Economy of Poetry
Its hard to say something new
in a land
where cliches are a dime a dozenIts hard to be brief
when work once begun
compels exertionIts a land
where seed is sown
nurtured, grown
where the heartfest
is threshed, pounded
mulled over, digested
till the motion is moved
that the product's approvedIts a land
where the whiff of a word
is not worth a scent
where fragments of thought
and keen observations
are coined by obsessive compulsivesIts a land littered
with the broken hearted, dreamers
ecstatics, romantics
and the multi level marketeers
reaching deep in their pockets
to retrieve
microscopically important localities
and to flash their native lingo currency
for all to see, and admire.
Yet none in this land do complain
where the driven and driven
live out of each others pockets.Oh
Its hard to say something new.
Oh
Its hard to be brief$ $ $
Burn Burn Burn -
I added the word "fretful" to my quantitative easing poem
I note, however, that you've inadvertently spelt it correctly -- thus missing the opportunity to demonstrate your deliberately ironic juxtaposition with "sleepers", and your solidarity with the common man.
Perhaps you could humorously insert an apostrophe to make "sleeper's" (this has the added advantage of introducing a note of mystery into your composition).
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Where is the Underestimated Power of Deflation, I ask of you? Where?
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