No Win No Fee they call it
And it’s such a cause of shame
In todays strange society where
It’s somebody else to blame.
Nobody wants to accept
Responsibility for any action,
Who can I sue these days
Being the usual reaction.
Burn yourself spilling coffee
Blame yourself not
Just sue the vendor for
Selling it to you too hot.
He should have realised
You’re probably a clumsy fool
And sold you a coffee
That’s more than a little cool.
Somewhere a Legal Advisor
Rubs his hands with glee
Raking in his slice of
Your award, No Win No Fee.
The soldier in combat
In the modern day strife
Reacts as he’s been trained
To save his comrades life.
Many years later
Over passage of time
Can find he’s been accused
Of historic War Crime.
And the past is revisited
As he fights to stay free
From an action that’s funded
Courtesy of No Win No Fee.
The hard eyed legal functionary
In his well tailored business suit
Watches the cash roll in
From his speculative fruit
And cares not a fig about
Any ex squaddie like me
As he continues to exploit
His Golden Apple No Win No Fee
They who do not study history
are doomed to repeat it repeatedly.
I do study history and I'm doomed to helplessly,
stand by and watch history get repeated by so many so blindly.
All in all, it's definitely a no win situation for me.
My tennis court sits
at the back of my plot;
I want to be good,
so play quite a lot.
The net I’ve repaired,
with string and a knot.
I’ve painted the lines.
(Last year I forgot.)
I mow off the grass
and sweep up the grot;
then carefully smooth
a troublesome spot.
I practice at dusk,
I practice at dawn;
I play every day
right here on my lawn.
I volley and smash,
I serve with top spin.
It's oh, such a shame,
I just cannot win!
~
For Joe Flach's 'I Just Can't Win' Contest
Time ran out, winner’s fans took to the field
But a ref pushed them back; forced them to yield
A flag had been thrown
And how fans did grown
A field goal was kicked; victory repealed
This actually happened in one of the football games I saw
last year.