Much have I pined in the paperwork,
And many accounts and books tallied;
Round many expense accounts have I rallied
And found how Corporate heads work.
Oft of one name in particular I shirk
To cite among many follies in my work:
Yet did I never breathe or e’en bark
Till I saw Madoff scheme take off sky-high:
Then felt I like some stupid pen-pusher
Wading through worthless assets rated high:
My eyes ever on entries and number
Must keep my judgment suspended-fie!
Work is worship: but a lean purse, my boon
I guess Madoff has his god of Mammon
benny
Archive for November, 2010
‘On first looking into Chapman’s Homer’-a parody
Posted in parody, poetry, tagged comic poetry, god of Mammon, John Keats, Madoff, sonnet on November 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
A Parody on Swinburne
Posted in parody, poetry, tagged A. C Swinburne, Benny Thomas, comic poetry, info crunch, internet age on November 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Value Added Days
From too much love of texting,
From spams and bots set free;
We thank with brief thanksgiving
Whatever info we access,
We are glut with useless sites
That make even a chat with man
In real time, and of any news
Add value to time spent. (The Garden of Proserpine-Swinburne)
benny
Rubaiyat-XI
Posted in parody, poetry, tagged Amazon.com, comic poetry, Kindle, Omar Khayyam, quatrain, Rubaiyat on November 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
A Parody on the famous lines beginning with ‘Here with a Loaf of bread….
Here with a kindle O, beneath the Sun
A word or two from my love exchanged-
She has her Kindle too; let Khayyam
Find some other meter and rhyme.
benny
Wiebe, my pet cat
Posted in animals, tagged 2000, 60x50cms, art, artist, Benny Thomas, ink wash, my late lamented pet, painting, watercolor on November 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
My pet:is he awake or asleep?
Rubaiyat: quatrain-1
Posted in illustrations, tagged Benny Thomas, color pencil and ink, Edward Fitzgerald, Hunter of the East, Omar Khyyam, translation on November 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The Tinder Box-illustration
Posted in illustrations, tagged Benny Thomas, comic art, Hans Christian Andersen, pen and wash, sketch on November 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The Tinder Box-'the dog ran with the princess on his back'
Mime-illustration
Posted in illustrations, tagged Benny Thomas, black and white, costume design, illustrator, pen and ink, The Ring Cycle, Wagner on November 4, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Siegfried at the forge of Mime
Posted in illustrations, tagged art, backlighting, Benny Thomas, black and white, correction fluid, Light and shadow, mime, Nieblungs, Nothung, The Ring Cycle, Wagner on November 4, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Galapagos Tortoise
Posted in animals, tagged art, artist, Benny Thomas, pen and ink on November 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Chavez:”I have the stars, he has the stripes!” Nationalizing Steel
Posted in cartoons, tagged current news, Nationalization, Steel Company, Venezuela on November 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
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