YOUR FRIENDLY NEIGHBORHOOD BANKER

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Take your banker out to lunch
and treat him with respect.
Is it his fault that our lives
are nearly all shipwrecked?
Our many friends and neighbors
floated loans from him before
by fibbing on their income,
jacking up their credit score.
With Madoff and with Petters
he played golf and took long trips,
looking for bonanzas
and a few investment tips.
He got a year-end bonus
that was wicked, it is true;
but how else could his trophy wife
buy cars that were brand-new?
He trusted us; we trusted him;
the money came in torrents.
But now instead of income
he is deluged with bench warrants.
This man who took the widow's mite
and ran it to six figures
is blamed for losing all of it
by helping out bid riggers.
He's just a friendly fellow
with his hand stuck in the till,
while all the paper wealth he made
is now a deep landfill.

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