The Catskill Chronicle

What is the measure of of wealth? Gadfly opines:

For Norm The Oracle of Broad and Wall

Envy them their

   power of decimal points

      and zeros, their enclave

         of detailed ultimicity.

         Many they are

      and clamoring, wide-eyed

   before Buddha: the

teletronic button board.

Scurry)   (worry

   world of conjuration —

      find it microtized

         in the eyes of Norm,

         the oracle.  I

      buy, they sell, he holds

   his harried head as

symbols spin in ticker time.

An oracle,

   he sees in were:

      occur;  in stirrings

         of the rank and raffians:

         if, then when.  And

      what is the why of this?

   Why, it’s a total

tally numbers game. And you?