Poetry

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By

Pesach Rotem

Doom

He promised to run the country like a business.

He ran his businesses into bankruptcy.

Earthlings, you are doomed.

See also:

www.nytimes.com/2019/01/12/business/contractors-government-shutdown-effect.html

www.nytimes.com/2019/01/13/us/government-shutdown-impact.html

www.nytimes.com/2019/01/15/us/politics/government-shutdown-economy.html

Pesach Rotem

Pesach Rotem was born and raised in New York and now lives in the village of Yodfat in northern Israel. He received his B.A. from Princeton University and his J.D. from St. John’s University. His poems have been published in more than a dozen literary journals including Chiron Review, Natural Bridge, and Voices Israel.