Poems About Euro Zone, Finance, Greece, " Alice's Euro Dream "

June 16, 2012 at 4:34 am · Filed under Alice's Euro Dream ·Tagged Alice In Wonderland, cannoli, default, doug, douglas gilbert, Euro, Euro Zone, finance, free verse, free verse poetry, Greece, Greek election, olive oil, pigs, pipeline, poem, poet, poetry, versely, Wunderkinder, Xyiwa

Alice’s Euro Dream

    by “Alice”

Impressed in my dreams
pressing matters,
stamens of red saffron
pressings of oil and olive trees,
a message from Archemedes
who indeed, though hard to see,
ran from Marathon to Brussels
and popped out of a cake.

He was chewing mast gum
from the island of Chios
made a wise crack proposal:

“Let us escape a faux pas, and have
no hurry to Massacre-Euro decline
twilight glow of the drachma, so

let my people build in your billing benign
an olive-oil pipeline, many gods willing.”

With steel pipe and pumps pleasing
it progressed through Greece well, just

shooting along Albania new
under sea to the Boot, but
then the dispute:

Italy wanted an expanded pipe
made of tubular pasta renewable
to carry cannoli and a tomato paste –
a steel pipeline through Italy
just would not do.

They built a pipeline
made of fried pasta,
all the way to
Brussels Belgium with
much at stake, but

before it could be turned on
nearly everyone along the way
ate it.

— Douglas Gilbert

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