When life underpaid Max
~ he started taking kickbacks
Categories:
kickbacks, giggle, life, money,
Form: Couplet
Football, for long a game of kicks,
To viewers oft of bare fists, bricks,
At times a show of gun,
At others filled with fun,
But now more of kickbacks it reeks.
It’s time FIFA gets yellow card
To warn: be fair and be on guard,
Let their flow some fresh breath,
Else, there’d be ‘sudden death’,
For you, your wards the same standard.
Should the warning prove not enough,
The game will get rough, make you puff,
Let cards yellow to red
Act as life kit for Fed,
When reason fails to rhyme, act tough.
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Happenings | 13.05.2015, revised January 2024| Quintain
Poet’s Note: This poem was penned following a scandal involving kickbacks of millions of dollars by football’s FIFA officials which was only a tip of the iceberg, it looks as if some warning cards were needed like never before—for officials more than for the players. Here are three quintains, not with ababb rhyme scheme, but takes a limerick format.
Categories:
kickbacks, football, games,
Form: Quintain (English)
Swiss secret bank accounts exposed
The Swiss banks are ordered to show the dirty deeds
of the tory polititian with their hoards of dollar greed,
in this coming age of honesty all will be surveyed,
and the dollars in the kickbacks, all to be displayed,
and the greedy shake in terror of the evil honesty,
as all the swiss of numbers expose their gallantree...
Don Johnson
great mission really
the graft and corruption needs exposing to keep people honest in this very case
Categories:
kickbacks, adventure,
Form: Ballad
Nature's, raw fury can no man withstand,
nor deeds of malcontent brothers understand
Natural calamities from: wind, water, divine command;
Man-made disasters by: leader, follower, brigand
Nature's untamed, mystical hand;
Man's marauding, sentient brand
Unseen forces generating chaos in each, hurricane
band ;
Contrasted with marksman's contrived, murderous stand
Without warning, listless gales shiver each, balmy strand;
Foreordained. work strikes with targeted violence planned
Mysterious, random tornadoes o'er storm trough spanned;
Calculating armies o'er demarcated lines fanned
Perilous, isolated earthquakes no instrument had scanned;
Callous looters colluding when supply does not meet demand
Spontaneous, volcanic emissions scar the land;
Gangs marked by sign; through attrition sculpting an urban island
Unforeseen floods lawful lives, endeavors do remand
Dictator coffers overflow; with taxes, kickbacks panned
Categories:
kickbacks, abuse, angst,
Form: Rhyme
Is the Watchdog Asleep?
By Elton Camp
According to what we have been told
To Medicare a bill of goods has sold
Fraudulent billings too often take place
To steal our tax money is a disgrace
Some medical providers have speeded
To charge for procedures not needed
Or to submit charges for tests not done
Because cheating Uncle Sam is such fun
Some equipment that is sold as being new
Through several patients it’s been through
Even patients may be in on some schemes
He gives his number & of kickbacks dreams
Then if he is asked about it, he agrees to tell
Yes, the doctor did that and did it just so well
Careful checks fraud such as this could detect
And into prison the crooked people then direct
So if the Medicare watchdog is actually sleeping
It is more on the watch that he should be keeping
Categories:
kickbacks, health,
Form: Rhyme