Pandora Papers...

 

Image Source: The Guardian

© October 6, 2021, the Griot Poet

 

Government leaders, monarchs, billionaires, A-list entertainers, and criminals: please define the differences.

 

The Pandora Papers reinforced what most were already aware of,

A “nation of laws, and not of men”: John Adams words that are superfluous,

Six hundred families have lobbyists and veto power over the rest of us,

When a large percentage wants climate action, free college, gun control, universal healthcare, their legislative puppets ignore us,

They’d instead push emotional buttons than solve problems for the republic,

Hate and division is the fuel they use to keep elected office,

And please, American oligarchs,

Elected officials go from six-figure salaries to multimillionaire status,

Under-the-table shenanigans,

It explains Kristen Sinema’s switch from firebrand liberal,

To airhead dismissive,

Answering reporters’, she’s “next to the elevator,” but not to her constituents,

Explains Joe Manchin not wanting shutoff of the dark money spigot,

Nor the coal mine he and his son-in-law owns,

They’re not “public servants,” but political prostitutes!

 

How is Moscow Mitch re-elected with an 18% approval rating?

The wealthiest senator on Capitol Hill from arguably the nation’s poorest state?

 

Government leaders, monarchs, billionaires, A-list entertainers, and criminals hide their wealth in the same overseas constructs,

 

The Pandora Papers

Published during a pandemic,

Telling us what we already suspected,

Sociopaths engineered society for their benefit,

Riding penis spaceships for ten-minute joyrides,

Warping the meaning of the “Overview Effect,”

In a brief epiphany of our “pale blue dot,”

Where people are dying,

They’ve always been socially distant,

Living in McMansion gated communities and half BILLION dollars yachts,

There’s a new billionaire created in America every seventeen hours,

A new super criminal to commit grand theft,

Not a single oligarch has become Batman yet,

Nor have any mentioned a society, or league of justice,

They are stochastic terrorists,

Gaslighting the proletariat,

Exacerbating flaws of “others”:

 

Afghanis, Asians, Blacks, Jews, Hispanics, Immigrants, Muslims, LGBTQ, Women, whose duty is to serve them,

That’s the reason for this obsession with their uterus,

 

Government leaders, monarchs, billionaires, A-list entertainers, and criminals hide their wealth in the same overseas constructs,

 

Please let me know what the difference is,

Answer: There are none.

 

Organized labor, beyond labor unions,

Are using social media to organize walkouts,

This pandemic has made them reflect:

Life’s too short for taking this bullshit,

We work harder than any other nation,

We have fewer benefits than our democratic equivalents,

Who manages to squeeze in 35-hour workweeks, no night shifts or weekends, maternity/paternity leave, three weeks off, and daily siestas,

All paid for by taxing the rich,

Creating a shared commons,

All citizens rub elbows in the same hospitals, grocery stores, schools, and malls,

The violence you’re starting to see there,

Are from the European sociopaths trying to export our grift,

We have the highest infant mortality, lowest life expectancy, and an epidemic of gun violence,

We puff up our chest and say, “American Exceptionalism,”

That is the facade, the flimflam, the hoodwink, the boondoggle,

 

The Pandora Papers conclusively proved,

The real “Boys in the Hood” are in corporate boardrooms!