LEHMAN WAY
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Lehman Brothers
collapsed in Sept. 2007
The financial world went into free-fall.
My funeral €uros were in Ireland then
I was in England eking out my pension
There was no guarantee in 2009
that Irish banking might not collapse
in 2010 as happened elsewhere in 2008
My funeral money could drop
into the fissure
opened up
by the run on
Northern Rock.
What is money?
a boat built to live and travel on
might be a way of protecting
a precarious financial future
and my future funeral prospects
as a 'non-cash' investment.
I began by assembling ideas
for the sort of lifestyle
I'd live in a floating man-cave
off-grid for days or weeks
in any weather or season
Ideas
lead to lists
lead to plans
which can lead to
dreams coming true
Lehman Brothers
collapsed in Sept. 2007
The financial world went into free-fall.
My funeral €uros were in Ireland then
I was in England eking out my pension
There was no guarantee in 2009
that Irish banking might not collapse
in 2010 as happened elsewhere in 2008
My funeral money could drop
into the fissure
opened up
by the run on
Northern Rock.
What is money?
a boat built to live and travel on
might be a way of protecting
a precarious financial future
and my future funeral prospects
as a 'non-cash' investment.
I began by assembling ideas
for the sort of lifestyle
I'd live in a floating man-cave
off-grid for days or weeks
in any weather or season
Ideas
lead to lists
lead to plans
which can lead to
dreams coming true
