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Black Narcissus

The graph is a mountain range in black.
Peaks, set backs, and ever higher peaks:
on that trendline the people were so high
with so much nothing in the trough beneath them,
and so little to stop them
falling.
The economy is a terraforma.
Everyone gets turned over.

On the vertiginous axis: there's your GDP.
And on the horizontal: time, in 3D,
unspooling in quarters.
Black Narcissus,
the crag raised for us by the Gods
had become irrational, fractious.
Everyone soft was too near the edges.
Then the crash came, and the drop was precipitous.