IN PLAINTIFF SIGHT
The fragrance of wealth
and vaults kept stealth
saturate the world with inequity
Without overseas seizure
the privileged milk leisure,
mauling counties between coasts
There’s no remorse
in hiding bounties off shores,
assuring savvy excuses the spree
It’s the same story told,
now millenniums old,
of pirates making moves to endure
Blood washes clean
on the real estate scene,
where rackets align for a match
Hustlers elected
cover funders connected,
with coercion from power secured
In swipes of deceit,
full of envy, full of greed,
those buzzing huddle in droves
Temptation mixed in
with appetite and sin
is euphoria raw but kept close
It’s prey in a ring
enablers string,
recruited and bruised on a whim
If disgrace follows suit
with revelations of truth,
outrage is matched by its scope
The camps of addicts
like leaves sink erratic,
graze but don’t scar the king
An evasion spawns legend
with systems upended,
for admirers who can’t look away