THE MARKETPLACE

The place to wheel and deal,

haggle, barter, bargain

whether Wall Street or Um Bada,

Shanghai, Hong Kong or Zurich, 

The Square Mile, Kam Chung

or black webish, illicit domains -

         it’s where we survive by trade via Silk, Tea and Sea-roads,

find lumps of gold in the desert,

from Jason's fleece,

under Paradeplatz pavements

in Nazi hoards

or alchemically transmuted.

A lost standard,

an undying quest

based on bread and air, 

ye gods!

How to propitiate the people per se?

Keep them pliable, low, hive frequency -

Make an AI matrix ofcourse! 

Slavery and wars have too costly consequences:

apart from keeping the arms trade solvent.