Compliance Week editor and publisher Scott Cohen provides a humorous look at Sarbanes-Oxley, the SEC, activist investors, and whomever else gets in his way in the holiday-themed poem below. 

A sample of his SOX-flavored version of "'Twas the Night Before Christmas":

Constructed in summer and fostered in fall,
‘Twas daring, audacious ... the nerve and the gall!
A plan based on timing, by my own admission,
advanced by the exodus from the Commission.

Yes, SEC veterans, bailing, they flew,
On Goldschmid! On Cutler! On Donaldson, too!
With turnover rampant, and chaos set in,
at last my deception, my scam, could begin!

My goal was pure evil, a dastardly deed,
a scandalous racket inspired by greed.
‘Twas really quite simple, but one that still shocks:
to undermine every provision of SOX.

The entire "Ode To A Fraud; A Humorous Take On SOX" is available here.