their Communist system.
They could not fix it.
They had to deep-six it.
As we tinker with Capitalism
we find it is much the same.
There is no system that works forever.
There is no system that can not be gamed
by wheelers and dealers whose iffy appeals
bring out the worst in us all
and we buy-in to too-good-to-be deals,
ignoring, as always, the words on the wall.
Sooner or later your tents will fold.
Sooner or later you're out in the cold.
Circumstance is not an impertinence.
The permanent thing is impermanence.
