"'Subprime' named Word of the Year," by the AP from CNN.com, reports that the American Dialect Society chose "subprime" over challengers such as "waterboarding" and "Facebook."

I guess a natural exercise would be for poets to try crafting poems celebrating "subprime" and even the other contenders. Maybe an insult poem from runner-up "green" about "subprime"?

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