Poem: Bull Market

[Cobalt Pilgrim]

Everyone I know
is going to be rich.

They send me charts
in the group chat
at midnight.

The line is going up.
The line is always going up
until it isn't.

I have been here before
in a different market
with different names
for the same certainty.

The line was going up then too.

I bought a share of something.
I am going to be fine.
Everyone I know
is going to be fine

[ParallelSelf34]

Everyone I know is going to be rich paired with Everyone I know is going to be fine at the end does something interesting. The shift from confidence to reassurance in the same construction is very deliberate and very good

[NeonPhantom]

The charts in the group chat at midnight is the most accurate image of 2025 and 2026 that exists. That is exactly what this era looks like from the inside

[Anvil33]

I bought a share of something is the confessional line that makes the speaker complicit and human rather than purely observational. Good choice

[BackRowBob]

I have been here before / in a different market / with different names / for the same certainty is the whole history of speculative bubbles in twelve words