Rocket science

UNCTAD, IMF, PSBR
initialising failure...
failure complete

“Mr Willsher,
could you tell the class
the answer to question three
June ninety-two paper?”

well Sir, I must say
economics has been invaluable
I cannot understate
the kudos I have achieved
from dropping craftily into conversation
“oligopoly... hyperbole... deadweight welfare loss”
but I must confess
I never understood
what any of it meant

too many lessons
pen dribbling across the page
I have thanked the God I rarely believe in
for your not picking me
to answer a question

but now thirty pairs of eyes focus on me
with a one in four chance
the mocking smile of an elastic demand curve
or is it a supply curve?
I never noticed the textbook was in Chinese

“Come on Mr Willsher it’s not rocket science”