As the Crow Flies It's Alive! It's Alive! an editorial poem by Xristi Megas

Corporation: An artificial person or legal entity created by or under the authority of the laws of a state or nation, composed, in some rare instances, of a single person and his successors, being the incumbents of a particular office, but ordinarily consisting of an association of numerous individuals, who subsist as a body politic under a special denomination, which is regarded in law as having a personality and existence distinct from that of its several members, and which is, by the same authority, vested with the capacity of continuous succession, irrespective of changes in its membership, either in perpetuity or for a limited term of years, and of acting as a unit or single individual in matters relating to the common purpose of the association, within the scope of the powers and authorities conferred upon such bodies by law. Black’s Law Dictionary, 1891

New York Times, September 8, 2002: "This has been a lousy period to go through," Mr. Weill* said at an investors' conference in New York on Friday. He said some of the firm's actions might look inappropriate in hindsight, but, he added, "Nothing has come to anybody's attention that we have done anything illegal."

* Sanford Weill of Citigroup, which now encompasses Travelers Insurance and Smith Barney, the latter deeply involved in Enron financing

Gluttonous, rapacious,
they gormandize the world,
ripping bounties from its surface,
gnawing their way to the
interior larder of its blessings.
They are not God’s creation, but man’s-
endowed with many minds, many hands,
but no single conscience or consciousness
to suffer
self-awareness,
shame.