You ask him if his hedge fund has sufficient exposureto disaster and he whispers

I could really use a hurricane to deliversuperior fundperformance

What do you see that other people cannot see?

Everything in this poem is on the surface there is nosubtext or subtext to the subtext; the words only meanwhat I want them to mean

I am not so interested in the imagination and I am more than capable of exploiting disaster concerns todeliver superior fund performance

Tell the story a different way

The doctor says Patient cannot tell the difference betweenwhat he is and what he owes

Describe the aesthetics of the disaster

Every collapsing system is a poem in itself

Lucky for meI am paid by the syllable to write it

You ask him if his disaster risk is heterogeneous and hesaysAll you need is a touch of disaster exposure and youwill see a beautiful increase in the returns on your fearpremium

But seriously boss

How bad does it have to be before we can call it adisaster

How broken does your body need to be before we cancall it a disaster

He dithers

She dithers

They dither (this is dithering)

Tell the story a different way

The interest in your body is the origin of your world

It all begins with a credit default swap

A complex financial product whose name sounds like anatural mineral

(Baby I love it when you saySuperior FundPerformance)

Let’s do some quick math on the quote-unquote back ofthis envelope

There are hundreds of lost bodies and thousands of lostlimbs

Are they enough?

The river is in the wrong place again

Is that enough?

The highway is hanging from the mountains again

Is that enough?

The mountains are covered with rooftops

The electric pole has been in the middle of the road forso long that people have confused it for a work of art

But and

The disaster that surrounds us is not really a disaster

But and

You begin with debt and you end with debtandwhen there is no debt you don’t know what to do because all you have ever known is debt