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Hello, and welcome to the literary edition of Slate Money, your guide to the business and finance news of the week.

I'm Felix Salmon of Fusion, and I'm joined, as always, by Slate's Moneybox columnist Jordan Weissman.

Hello, Felix. Hello, Jordan. And filling in for Kathy O'Neill, we have an extremely special guest.

Alyssa Quart is a writer, journalist, critic. She's the editor of the Economic Hardship Reporting

Project, which is Barbara Erin Rice's project. And most interestingly, for today's purposes,

she is also a poet. And she has a new book of poetry out called Monetized, which features a

fabulous Marilyn Minter photograph on the cover. So you can't miss it in your local bookshop.

Welcome, Alyssa.

Thanks a lot.

Glad to be here.

So, and your book is called Monontyser, obviously, that's all the excuse that we need to have you on the show and read us poems.

And we're going to try and attach a kind of literary bent to everything that is going on in this show.

So to start us off, I feel that we should really start here with a poem.

And then we will see where we go from there.

So, Alyssa, tell us what you're going to read us.

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