Ph.D.’s to be in a course on
the economics of transition –
boards of equations
occasionally quavering voice
of the professor
stopping
apologizing for the lack
of good theory in this area.
If I knew what he
thought that I
assumed that he
was thinking
I would have laughed.
The transition, to a Russian
the stage of primitive accumulation
that leads to capitalism.
Da, he concludes, and crosses himself
just as the wheels of the jet
leave the runway.