The Jackpot Pumpkin

  (Greed's Comeuppance)


The Jackpot Pumpkin 


Elated with the flush 
of windfall compensation, 

euphoric bliss of richness' sweet kiss, 

the pumpkin burns bright into the night.

****************


****************

Everybody loved the party. No expense was spared. 

The rewards were immeasurable. The risks were negligible. 

****************

****************

The culprits were inculpable. All the greedy-guts got a belly full.

The heights were unfathomable.  Bulls stampeded the market.

****************

****************

The bottom was bottomless. The credit was free. 

****************

****************

The price went up!  

Then the morning came, and we all woke up. 

***************

***************

The flippers flopped when the market dropped. 

***************

 

(Scroll Down Past Flower to Continue...)



**************** 


Greed's comeuppance has come upon us. 

The Jackpot Pumpkin is rotten. 


(Note the slugs slurping slime; Liquidation of “past it’s prime”.) 

****************

****************


We've all sunk low in a sea of woe.

Someday this will all be forgotten.

(Note the slugs, sucking slime, joyful for, the rotting rind.)

*************


****************

The seeds have been planted, and lie waiting for fading memory.

****************


***********


Then the next season will come,


of another  


Jackpot Pumpkin. 

 


****************