Watch two older people
Struggle with technology
When applying for a visa -
Yes, I mean my spouse and me.
You will laugh at their ineptitude
When working on the app
As they try to scan a passport page
And each repeated tap
Is rejected, so they try once more
To find the blasted chip,
Wond’ring if it’s really worth it
To be going on this trip.
If you stick around, you’ll get to see
When they are almost done,
That a message will pop up to say,
As if it’s all been fun,
That there seems to be a problem
So they’ll have to start again.
An emoji for frustration
Might describe what happens then.
Yet, despite their stress, they manage,
Only screaming just a bit,
To complete the forms requested
And successfully submit.
J-oyful
O-pus'
S-tatement
U-ses
E-ssential
G-reeting's
U-plifting
E-xpression
V-irtuously
A-pplying
R-ight
R-emembrance's
A-crostic
Topic: Birthday of Josue Guevarra (March 02)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
J-ust
U-phold
N-oble
C-ompassion
A-nd
S-tart
A-pplying
O-ptimistic
L-ife
Topic: Birthday of Jun Casaol (February 13)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
R-ight
E-xpression
N-icely
E-mploys
V-ery
E-ssential
R-emembrance
G-ladly
A-pplying
R-emarkable
A-spect
Topic: Birthday of Rene Vergara (February 08)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
R-ight
O-pus'
S-pritual
E-ssence
L-ets
Y-our
N-ame
V-irtuously
I-mply
L-ife's
L-oveliness
A-pplying
T-he
I-deal
M-essage
A-nnually
Topic: Birthday of Roselyn A. Villatima (January 26)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
A-void
N-otorious
N-astiness
A-nd
R-isk
A-pplying
Q-uarantine
U-ntil
E-nhanced
L-ockdown
L-uckily
A-bates
Y-ucky
U-nknown's
G-rime
Topic: Birthday of Anna Raquel Layug (May 18)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
L-itterateur
O-f
R-egards
I-n
E-uphoria
R-ightfully
O-ffers
S-weet
E-xpression
S-imply
A-pplying
L-ove
A-s
D-edication
A-rrives
N-icely
Topic: Birthday of Lorierose J. Saladan (March 21)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
C-omposer's
H-appy
E-xpression
R-ightfully
R-elieves
Y-our
C-ry
A-nd
D-istress
A-pplying
N-atal
O-ptimism
Topic: Birthday of Cherry Cadano (March 15)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
A-uthor
I-mplements
R-ighteous
A-crostic
P-oetically
A-pplying
J-oyful
E-xpression
Topic: Birthday of Aira Paje (December 29)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
J-ovial
A-uthor's
C-omposition
K-eenly
I-nspires
E-veryone
B-y
A-pplying
S-weet
A-crostic
Topic: Birthday of Jackie R. Basa (January 29)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
J-oyful
E-xpression's
A-crostic
N-ote
E-mploys
T-errific
T-opic
E-ndorsing
E-motion
B-y
A-pplying
L-ove
Topic: Birthday of Jeanette L. Ebal (January 29)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
J-ust
U-se
L-oveliness
I-n
E-xcellent
T-opic
N-icely
A-pplying
L-ine
O-f
S-cribe
Topic: Birthday of Juliet Nalos (July 15)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
L-et
H-eaven
E-mploy
N-ote
I-n
R-ighteous
I-nstruction
S-o
H-umans
E-agerly
S-how
C-omplete
O-bedience
B-y
A-pplying
L-ove
Topic: Birthday of Lhen Irish Escobal (March 29)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
Bureaucrat's wonderland, admin sensational!
Dealing with legions of forms immigrational
Fill 'em out, print 'em out, copy each copy
Certify, verify, check it's not sloppy
Ensure that your mug-shots' dimensions abide
By strict regulations, for proof bona fide
Designed to deter and deny the defrauder
Tho' he is from England, not South of the border
Questions for terrorists, questions for spies
Questions for arms dealers (unsavoury guys):
“Do you like bombs and explosive devices?
Do you sell drugs at unbeatable prices?
Are you a Communist, socialist ****?
Do you intend hiding crack up your butt?
Your shotgun's permitted (so long as you've brought her
For wasting wild bison and Indian slaughter)
Hoping to join the best nation on earth?
Show me your balls and certificate of birth
(Not just the awesomest, also the wealthiest
And if you have money, we're even the healthiest)”
Fingerprints, medicals, primary screening
Interviews, vaccines and queries (well-meaning)
“Tho' thousands of dollars you've paid for this pleasure
Now enter and exit our country at leisure”
Applying for Social Security Disability
By Elton Camp
Whenever unemployment comes to rise
Applying for disability seems quite wise
Those who try to get by doing that way
Are increasing greatly almost every day
Some, of course, truly do have disability
Many are really looking to get money free
And they see no good reason as to why
It would be wrong even to tell a big lie
“My back hurts so terrible I can’t stand.
And I have little control of either hand.”
The claimant knows it’s very hard to say
That they don’t really feel just that way
Once the person begins to draw a check
Even if he works, it is very hard to detect
Especially if the boss they do prove able
To get to pay them underneath the table
But the risk is that if fraud can be shown
It’s payback and perhaps to prison gone
And so many are getting money that way
Funds will soon run out, or so they say
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