Truth Spoken by Elizabeth Warren: A Poem

She might not have conceived it as a poem but it is a poem. When the truth is spoken cleanly, simply, thoroughly, thoughtfully, it becomes a poem.

This jewel from Elizabeth Warren appears in an Huffington Post article, with a link to its origins, and with some excellent, well-worth-reading comments on it:

I'm worried a lot about power in the financial services industry and I'm worried about the fact that basically, starting in the '80s, you know, the cops were taken off the beat in financial services. These guys were allowed to just paint a bull's-eye on the backside of American families," Warren said. "They loaded up on risk. They crushed the economy. They got bailed out. What bothers me now, they still strut around Washington, they block regulations that they don't want, they roll over agencies whenever they can.