To a Corporation Dying Young
with a nod to A. E. Housman
The time your IPO sold well
We cheered you at the closing bell.
Traders on the floor cried "buy"
And sent you to a record high.
Today, a Judge impounds your stock
And puts your assets on the block,
As from your officers you slip
Received into receivership.
Smart play, admitting to defeat,
Now that your specs are obsolete.
For early though a tech may please
It withers briefer than CDs.
Lawsuits bankruptcy will close
Cannot offend the public nose,
And creditors cannot assail
Those behind the corporate veil.
Now you will not join the dreck
Of those delisted from NASDAQ,
Another former brand of fame
And the value died before the name.
So get, before the news is out,
Another app that you can tout,
And make new promises to us:
Puffery in your prospectus.
And round you just as before
Will flock the suckers who want more,
Gentle sheep begging to be shorn
As trusting as the newly born.
by Chris Bullard
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