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