Plu Ca Change Plu C'est La Meme

When I see the phrase 'lessons must be learned'
in the popular press after the latest selective collapse
in slow late-period Capitalism I know what they mean;

The speaker and those they represent
must be allowed to keep any money
they have trousered in the process
and their accountants not hounded
for how they let it all happen,
even when millions of citizens
will be poorer for longer periods
than the media will let itself dwell upon.

Newer firms will have to make different mistakes
and coin different evasions to mis-account
for when their own bankruptcy happens.