A Wanna Be D.B. Cooper Poem by Joe Rosochacki

Marcus Schenker was a hedge fund investor,
I learned about hedge funds when I viewed The Ascent of Money,
Which was PBS yesterday; it opened my eye that’s for sure.
What I saw was criminal not in least funny,
About people who have manipulated money.
Apparently the Wall Street collapse which has brought many banks,
Which has lead to suicides and houses of cards that are no more to speak of.
Which lead to the multibillion dollar bubble creation by Bernard Madoff.
D.B. Cooper was a penny pinching robber by the likes of these manipulators,
D.B. merely took $200,000 in 1971 (about $6,000,000 in today’s money) ,
Whether blue collar or white, they were a bunch of thieving operators,
Whether by extortion or deception, whether AIG or ENRON,
Whether they be Lehman Brothers or Bear Stearns,
They did all the same thing, that brings us to Marcus,
He conned his investors, he broke their trust.
Marcus is well-accomplished pilot unlike D.B. Cooper,
Marcus had thoroughly planned out his escape from the law,
The motorcycle in the storage unit, the fake identification,
He put his airplane on autopilot, then jumped out while his plane was in the air,
Much like D.B. Cooper,
Except he was caught by police that put him into incarceration.
Marcus was caught with his wrists being slit, blood all over.
But he survived the ordeal now to face the music,
It shall not be Hava Nagila time for him and Madoff.
I feel this is only the surface of the iceberg that is still present,
Titanic will be relived,
As investors scramble for the remaining lifeboats to save themselves,
Before they drown,
Financial wise,
Like the Titanic, far too many people for the ship’s amount of lifeboats,
They hope to be like a financial unsinkable Molly Brown.

(1-14-09)