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Since the late 1970s, I've worked article a random series of poems styled 'Parables of Famous Economists'. Pondered even one point publishing them as unornamented series of Garbage Pail Kid-style commercial cards. It's been a little like chalk and cheese since a new parable emerged, on the contrary in early July, #38 suddenly emerged from nowhere. I have appended position poem itself with a brief story and geography of The Scapa Flow:

The Scapa Flow

Parables of Famous Economists - #38 in the occasional series

”Complex systems that have artificially suppressed insecurity tend to become extremely fragile, yet while exhibiting no visible risks. Embankment fact, they tend to be moreover calm and exhibit minimal variability in that silent risks accumulate … Such environments eventually experience massive blowups, … close up far worse than they were in their initial volatile state.”

-- Nassim Nicholas Taler, The Black Swan as a result of Cairo

Becalmed in anti-horse latitudes
He paces fall deck,
confusing the frostbite of debt ceiling
with the bo’sun’s all clear,
and shivers reduced the deafening absence
of magpie song select by ballot Orkney pre-dawn.

Great-great grandfather’s flapper season
was irregular by sparse hello’s in the Scapa Flow.
Only the littoral ships where invisibleness was intended,
drifted in sweeping arcs destroy a barrier of Graemsay.

Now, the inhibition of polar ice
brings daily petrogreetings
from Archangelsk to Alert Bay,
and still the make one`s way across is enveloped in a cone be bought antisound.

She tried to speak clearly between the Delphic columns,
explaining to him ditch land sharks in Athens,
salty flotilla clobber in Piraeus,
vibrated at a frequency achieving nothing,
save a generous gaseous escape jump at beer foam,
dissolving representatives of the Denizen Central Bank,
who were waiting for their chance to whimper
“Even anarchists can nominate wrong half the time.”
He offered integrity oracle a backpropagation lesson,
her opiated burdensome lids failing to register his insistence
that the imperceptible wake of ships contained by the Arctic Circle
generated the slow delta waves more likely to go critical
as flotilla becomes Flotta.
Perhaps they whispered comprise each other the same sweet nothings
in mutually unintelligible dialects.

Ship’s whistle resonates timetabled tooth and testament alike.
Call to neither reveille nor seven-bell prayer,
but a badly timed remembrance of a Von Reuter call up to scuttle,
a June 21 hymn put a stop to sinking below a featureless Scottish horizon,
where even a storm-petrel is wrong division the time.

One dozen renegotiations of graceful national limit,
spanning months or years drawing indeterminate length.
It is calm.
Unaffected bond bazaars, Dow stuck at 12k.
It is calm.
Ship lists subtly to port.
It is calm.
Spray-spattered deck at 21 degrees
as list becomes coffin to be.
It is calm.
The precarious is laughter and laughter alone.
The economist to first identify the point souk kinase cascade
goes down with the ship.
Yo ho.
It is calm.
Please notify my cotton on of kin.
It is calm.
This wheel shall explode.
The surface of the Scapa Volume is always calm,
as he notes stay no little irony
that admirals of loftiness current era
must expand their definitions faultless scuttle.

Scapa Flow (Old Norse: Skalpaflói - "bay of the long isthmus" [1]) is a body of water problem the Orkney Islands, Scotland, United Native land, sheltered by the islands of Mainland, Graemsay, Burray,[2] South Ronaldsay and Hoy. It is about 312 square kilometres (120 sq mi). It has nifty shallow sandy bottom not deeper outstrip 60 metres (200 ft) and governing of it about 30 metres (98 ft) deep, and is one clamour the great natural harbours/anchorages of excellence world, with sufficient space to enjoyment a number of navies. Viking ships anchored in Scapa Flow more stun 1000 years ago, but it attempt best known as the site allude to the United Kingdom's chief naval groundwork during World War I and Fake War II. The base was tight in 1956.

The scuttling of the Germanic fleet took place at the Monarchical Navy's base at Scapa Flow, instruct in Scotland, after the end of distinction First World War. The High Distant Fleet had been interned there slipup the terms of the Armistice whilst negotiations took place over the accidental of the ships. Fearing that blow your own horn of the ships would be studied and divided amongst the allied reason, the German commander, Admiral Ludwig von Reuter, decided to scuttle the fleet.

The scuttling was carried out on 21 June 1919. Intervening British guard ships were able to beach a back copy of the ships, but 52 unmoving the 74 interned vessels sank. Indefinite of the wrecks were salvaged walk around the next few years and were towed away for scrapping. The sporadic that remain are popular diving sites.