metropolitan colonials - those wags of ***** Levi's
and Nike trainers
now entombed in polychrome boiling ***
dumbfounded in questions for meaning
seeking bounty without guns and lancers
tossing bibles of lies and dismay
punking the symbolism of politics not the realities
the ***** come home to claim prizes at the winters ball
the wayfarers long dead leaving statutes to now **** and plunder

and itemized sepia to darkened bodies traded for gain and ruin
stigmata oozing blood, sweat and fears
such is the lives and times of the concrete collaborators
and the pens of mouths and forked tongues
simmering in the chicaneries of cutthroats in twisted downrising
sumptuous citadels and wastrels ministries all hedged from colonies
the twenty first century invoices of the explorers
for kings and queens