Happy New Year 2026
The sky has always been ’bout to fall
Dielectric the space in-between it all
To remain it must keep changing its mind
A capacitor charged with keeping our time
Divine movement of the thread
Divine distraction from the dread
Papered over circuses
Nibbled bitter bread
Your arbitraged attention
Sold with all the eggs
The goose was laying gold
But the old grey goose is dead
And every damn hero that I’ve ever worshipped
Fell off their throne
In fantastic fashion
Gone
Gone
Sipping on flattery
Gone
Gone
Built honeyed lairs
Bulls to the teacups
Traps for the bears
A machine fraught with fragments
Lifts its autumn hair
Flinging and roaring
A robber baron’s fare
When ghosts ring iron bells
A whispered buy and sell
Divine manipulation of the threads
The tell
The tell
Stranding the assets
With five kinds of spies
Wishing you well a new year’s eyes
While there’s two kinds of money
To fault
To default
To an earthquake fault line
Money
A promise
A road trip for good
Before the understanding
Someone’s heard and understood
And every damn hero that I’ve ever worshipped
Fell off their throne
In fantastic fashion
Gone
Gone
Promised the world
Gone
Gone
Built honeyed lairs
Bulls to the teacups
Traps for the bears
We transmute the basest of anger
Into an ingot of gold
Hold out the fleece of Jason
All your writings of recipes for
Joining
Standing
Waving the hands
Squeezing the pitchforks
Marching in bands
We’ll make that difference
We’ll change that plan
But the lines aren’t straight
In a liquid land
I can be alone
If you’d just stick around
I’ll be that raging bull
In a fine China tea cup gown
And the gold crowd roars
While you make no sound
Maybe all that love
could finally rally round
Every damn hero that I’ve ever worshipped
Fell off their throne
In fantastic fashion
Gone
Gone
Sipping on the flattery
Gone
Gone
Built up honeyed lairs
Bulls to the teacups
Traps for the bears
Gone
Gone
Promise the world
Then gone
gone
and what have we learned?
I can be alone
If you’d just stick around
I’ll be that raging bull
In a fine China tea cup gown
And the gold crowd roars
While you make no sound
Maybe all that love
could finally rally round
Happy new year
you 2026
© 2026 Elaine Diane Taylor
Elaine Diane Taylor on X @ ElaineDTaylor
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Nothing on this site is intended as investment advice. We’re all watching which way the wind is blowing.
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Thank you to Jim Rickards for including me in his New York Times bestselling book The New Case for Gold.
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Nothing on this site is intended as investment advice. We’re all watching which way the wind is blowing.
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Gold is at historic highs because trust in government and legacy systems is at historic lows.
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Elaine – Barkerville, Gold Rush Town, British Columbia, Canada
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Thank you to Mike Maloney for including my song Coins and Crowns in Episode 1 of his bestselling YouTube series Hidden Secrets of Money.
Currently over 6.4 million views.
Coins and Crowns
words and music Elaine Diane Taylor
SOCAN/ASCAP
from the album Coins and Crowns
Coins and Crowns is featured in Episode 1 of Mike Maloney’s bestselling series Hidden Secrets of Money.
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Not Much of a Holiday (Bank Holidays and Media Persuasion)
words and music Elaine Diane Taylor
Single available on iTunes
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A Terrible Breeze (War and Social Media)
The news comes down
A little bluebird sings
Words of war
Fire and furious things
Of testing might
‘Til no patience knows
If keeping still
Still keeps you safe at home
It’s a terrible breeze
They speak of today
Of threats that used to live a world away
We all know wind
Can blow both ways
And a terrible breeze can blow it all away
A worldwide net
Sees our village grow
Until we all forget
What each one used to know
How a blind bird’s wings
Can reach the shore
And turn the wheel of peace and war
Village fools sinking down, down, down
Debt and gold wound in numbered shrouds
Deal of a life it’s bread and clowns
Can we afford another go around?
The news comes down.
It’s a terrible breeze. The news comes down.
words and music Elaine Diane Taylor
Single available on iTunes
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Preparing for the Fall is a live boutique album available for digital download — featuring Wag the Dog, Black Swan Dive, American Pie and Gods of the Copybook Headings. Also available on iTunes, Google Music, Amazon Music and major digital distributors.
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The Gods of the Copybook Headings
words by Rudyard Kipling and music by Elaine Diane Taylor
from the album Preparing for the Fall.
The copybooks of the early 1900s gave us all the wisdom we need. The sayings that were copied are the truths, the gods of our world. All the empires who followed the gods of the marketplace have fallen, and there’s terror and slaughter when the gods of the copybook headings return. The lyrics are by Rudyard Kipling. One of my gurus.
Another Week on Wall Street
words and music Elaine Diane Taylor
from the album Coins and Crowns.
“A little grease (Greece) is floating out to sea, and little pigs (Portugal, Italy, Greece and Spain) are bobbing up and down, they’ll send a storm and we’ll see, when the tide goes out who’s naked on the beach“. The world is changing as we know it.
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Nothing on this site is intended as individual investment advice. We’re all watching which way the wind is blowing.
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Elaine Diane Taylor 
