Mobster.. Fraudster... Bankster.

Would i hedge against

the towers that are crumbling

in which i dwelled for years,

which sort of destroyed

the old mighty Kremlin

along with its spires,

the towers that once stood

mighty and tall

on the street named wall ,

even while it

threatens to wipe the meek

earnings of the young joes and all,

 knowing well that, to do that

 would mean to be

 being meaner

 than to maul,

Oh ! why would i care,

was i not the one who led

this entire thing to be here,

Well, i care not to guess and

i am sure you know me

by now to the bare,

that i am just not your ordinary banker,

i am what they call

the wall street banker.

Profits is what I would die to make

even while things seem huge

that are at stake,

like the pensions that people hold dear,

i treat them like they are already mine dear

Pocketing them as my  huge bonuses

even while i keep inducing

my books

quarter after quarter, year after year,

only with losses,

since the great debacle of 2008

which sure did matter,

and that’s why i decided not to create assets

as it dint pay much than to sneak my hands

into the ordinary blokes pockets,

and that's how i still get to keep

the porches and my private jets,

and that’s why

I am not your ordinary banker

i am what they call

the wall street banker.

I securitize your mortgages,

calling them as debt obligations

knowing well that,

they would all end up as

collateral’s causing more damages,

and that's why i hedge against them

for well i know they would

end up as i expect them,

and that's how i wipe all the taint

off me,

by not wanting to be a saint

which is not for me,

and dying  to make profits for sure

which exactly is just me.

and that’s why

I am not your ordinary banker

i am what they call

the wall street banker.

while wells fargo is busy lending

sub-prime auto loans,

i am hoping to see it soon load and get blown

for i see there a chance for me to hedge,

the chance that i created for myself

by bringing it to that edge,

and that's why i am not your ordinary banker

i am what they call

the wall street banker.

I kick the LIBOR rates around,

even as Barclay's and banks of all the royals

in Scotland and England

would swear by on all accounts,

that this game is being played fair,

though they might give in a bit
when forced to confront the court's
and other such affairs,

that at times it involves

the twisting of the arms

of the meager players around,

and the bending of the rules

to wrestle everyone to the ground,

and yet they would maintain,

what's being played is nothing but a fair game

a stance that the likes of meagre joes cannot but only acclaim,

as the bail-outs have become cliched,

in comes the bail-ins in a sleigh

to hot things a bit in the game,

where no one gets to hide

under their own shade,

because this should be the game

where i always should be winning,

and the ordinary Joe, which is you,

should always be losing,

and that's the only reason
i ever chose to be a banker,

and to make the likes of you 
call me

The wall street banker...
































Prasanna Kumar