Let’s consider financial models as art–
art as in emerging from easel to wall
If numbers are colors, equations are brushes
and assumptions are light
approximation tends to interpretation
insight finally equals insight
And to write is, to write,
leaving marks on the page with intent
of translation to thought…so ought
not we agree that bullets are only
the poetry of business, clearing out excess
in favor of return, phrase, return
Under given assumptions, in this light
27 years of financial expression
regressions, contractions, process
risk and change management
give me license to claim
both artist and writer
or poet, photographer
as poet-bound words, like charted numbers
are most pleasing when precise