Mergers and Acquisitions
Their marriage was nefarious for its machinations,
for it was less love story than it was amalgamations:
wedding of fluid assets, portfolio combining,
mid-cap stocks and pipelines, oil shares and mining.
Their merger started out with a proposal to borrow—
an essay for a loan that somehow upon the morrow
turned into a merger that wed family and family
to create a union that was more of an anomaly
than it was a love story—a joining of two powers
that should have woven dollar signs into the wedding bowers.
Thus is a son or daughter turned into corporate pawn
as simply as a corporate schemata is redrawn.
Prompt words today are fluid, nefarious, borrow, amalgamate and essay.
lifelessons - a blog by Judy Dykstra-Brown 
The old, old sorry — oops, story. 😉
Apparently King Ferdinand topped them all. Declaring that “other nations make alliances but happy Austria makes marriages,” he engaged his daughter–if the Queen had a girl–to the Dauphin of France. So Marie Antoinette was married to Louis 16 before she took her first breath.
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OMG. Imagine. And look what happened!
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Yeah. She was a child born in a gilded cage, as it were. But finally royal privilege had its last day in France.
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You got a wonderful poetic flow going today. Well done, Judy.
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Kinda had to dig today.
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Those prompts were hard work today. You did so well though.
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Thanks, Mason.
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Love this.
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;o)
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