the shifts

day before yesterday
i was long
in the market.

so, at night
while watching news on TV
i wished
gaddafi announced his resignation,
the saudis gave up
anti-government protests
and the japanese authorities
successfully brought the radiation
from the threatened nuclear reactors
under control!

yesterday
i went short
and suddenly
by the evening
i mysteriously lost
my sympathies for
the protestors in the arab world
besides turning pessimist
for the battling island of the rising sun!

i am again long today
and feel shameful
of a techtonic shifts of
loyalty plates
deep beneath me
threatening to trigger
a tsunami
of unprecedented moral waves!