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  Rats and Kidneys
by Patrick A Granfors
Thursday, April 26, 2012
Rated "G" by the Author.

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Subordinate body parts, the latest in Supervision's fringe benefit package.

Talk about an ingrate. Jackie Brucia who is employed by a Long Island, NY auto dealership group received a donated kidney from a person in San Francisco as a result of subordinate co-worker Debbie Steven’s donation of her kidney to a man in Missouri through a donation chain. Jackie approached Debbie after a planned alternate donation fell through since Debbie had previously volunteered to donate in Jackie’s behalf. Debbie was fired shortly after returning to work from the surgery, (she thinks too soon) because she felt ill and needed to go home to rest. Her boss Jackie, called her from her own home to chastise her for going home sick. Apparently Jackie still wasn’t well enough to go back to work yet either. It remains true ; no good deed goes unpunished


When I said I’d give a kidney

So you could work until retired

I never figured that within a week

I’d hear the words “you’re fired”

 

My concentration may have been

Not quite up to snuff

But at least I tried to come to work

While you sat on your duff

 

It’s now plain for all to see

The surgery lacked a crucial part

Along with a donated kidney

Should have been a transplant heart

 

But it’s OK I’ll make it through

This tickles my funny bone

I heard it through the grapevine

Your kidney has a stone

 

 

 

Copyright © 2012 Patrick Granfors

 

 

 




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Reviewed by Annabel Sheila 4/30/2012
Giggle....what goes around comes around!


Anna
Reviewed by Vivian Dawson 4/29/2012
Such an injustice is worth your
poetry so well versed *Patrick*

Lady Vivian
Reviewed by Ronald Hull 4/27/2012
Now ain't that the rat's ass! How do these bastards get to be bosses anyway. There's something strange in our hierarchical system.

My father never was boss. He was however, deprived during the depression. Maybe that's why he had a rather selfish streak. Come to find out, just before he died, that he had only one kidney. Maybe donated one back in those lean days during the Great Depression. ;-)

Ron
Reviewed by Mr. Ed 4/27/2012
Doesn't surprise me at all, not these extremely self-centered days. 'No good deed goes unpunished' has returned with a vengeance for far too many.
Reviewed by Mark Lichterman 4/26/2012
This is almost unbelivable. Just goes to show that buried within many humans there indeed lies a heart of stone.
Mark
Reviewed by Budd Nelson 4/26/2012
Patrick,
wonderfuly done again, tickled mu funny bone.
budd
Reviewed by Paul Berube 4/26/2012
A complete and total ingrate. Too, too sad.
Reviewed by Ed Matlack 4/26/2012
Looked up a word from Lonnies review that I never heard of & the following is what came up "Sorry, no dictionaries indexed in the selected category contain the word commidification." So now I know not what to say except that as always I like this poem & the reason for the writing thereof...e
Reviewed by JASMIN HORST SEILER 4/26/2012
A stone heart and a kidney stone and rocks in the head, well said Patrick, even with all this pain, you can't hide your humour.
Bless ya!
Reviewed by Lonnie Hicks 4/26/2012
Wow. The commidification of every thing. Kidneys too? Love the rat.
Reviewed by Richard King 4/26/2012
UN-FRICKIN-BELIEVABLE!!!! but nicely expressed. Dick
Reviewed by Karen Vanderlaan 4/26/2012
ridiculous! well expressed here though!
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