As a friend of mine from Texas says, he will believe
corporations are people when Texas executes one.

Bill Moyers

Bill—I can’t believe
you and your folksy friend are so naïve;
Texas executes corporations every day
for faults as minor as not paying fees.
The state giveth, and the state taketh away.

They couldn’t do that to a human.
I notice you PBS-types never mention unions,
also part of Citizens United—
is your reading comprehension slipping,
or is it too much chardonnay you’re sipping?

In fact, unions outspend corporations, but who’s counting?
And they’re stockholders–invested in the future
  of business through pension plans.  You mess
  with a pipefitter’s retirement money; you’ll get
  a pounding that will make On the Waterfront seem funny.

If corporations weren’t persons, the state could
   shut down your local hospital because they didn’t
   like the color of a doctor’s tie.  Worse yet (for you, not me),
   they could shut down PBS, for no reason at all in C
   as Bix Beiderbecke and Eddie Lang might say.

Speaking of public tee-vee, why do they run crap like
   Suze Orman, fleecing viewers, and
   70’s retread rock groups like The Eagles?
I guess maybe your audience got dumber
   from smoking stuff that’s illegal.

(Wait—aren’t you the guy who back in the day
   chased gays out of government for LBJ?
I thought so—it’s a matter beyond conjecture—
   so why should anybody listen to your lectures?)

Sure you hate corporations, like Apple and PBS
   and Starbucks where you get your latte each morn,
   and the company that makes your hybrid car.
You’d rather have Sam the mechanic produce it by far,
   at a much higher cost—right?  Me thinks not.

I think you’d admit it, too—under duress.
On the issue of corporations you won’t live without them;
   you just like, without cogent argument, to doubt them.
Fine—put your cash up without limited liability,
   baring all your personal assets to be seen and sued.

The idea of corporate personhood’s not a bad thesis
   when you have to put your money
   where another guy’s lawyer’s fee is.
We can live in mud huts, wear hair shirts and eat dirt too–
   I suppose that would be just desserts for you.