Songs of Wall Street: An Anthology of Verse for Literary Investors

""When young day trader stoops to folly,/ And finds the Internet betrays,/ Will cokes and donuts make him jolly?/ Will Fritos keep the tears away?"" asks Michael Silverstein in his (now slightly dated) takeoff on Oliver Goldsmith's ""Woman."" Songs of Wall Street: An Anthology of Verse for Literary Investors makes New Economized spoofs of work by 49 poets, from the Elizabethans to mystics, Romantics and English and American Victorians. Christina Rossetti's ""When I Am Dead, My Dearest"" becomes ""What I most dread, dear client,/ Is that you will depart;// ...I shan't then get my fees;/ I shan't then buy a Hampton house/ My trophy wife, to please."" Those fees are already long gone. (July)