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Fundamentals of Macroeconomics
Scarcity: Many things
are worth
crying about, though
limited quantity
of tears. Demand:
Remember the hawk
we saw
next to the sidewalk,
emboldened,
having just killed
a young rabbit?
Yards away, we
gulped its wild eye,
its talons.
Supply: The rabbit’s
still-warm skin
tearing as the hawk
plucks clumps of fur,
drops them in a
mound on dead grass.
The thread in
the rabbit’s spine
snaps. Gone
its quivering nose.
Fluttering
heartbeat. Walk away
from the raptor,
the bloodied fur, the
shadows sharp as knives.
Opportunity cost: what we long for,
what our bodies ache for,
what wehave given up
in order to survive.
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