Time to go topical, though tropical

Would be nicer on a minus-3 day

(That’s Celsius I add)-now on to the fray–

Our topic d’jour: the crash most optical

Of those Crypto funds quite illusional

Pipered by that fellow Sam Bankman-Fried

Whose fiction-ish name perfect-rhymes with Greed;

A character the more delusional

For all of his smartest-guy-in-the-room

Stanford-bred, math-camp raised, post-M.I.T.

Pedigree; he proved to be most Blighty

Grew an industry of mirrors via Zoom–

Riding the digital nothingness trend

A man with an empty bag, in the end.

(15 December 2022)