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Corruption strikes a synonym with
Good manners – its elegance is what clinches
The deal; that’s why corrupt people are so
Refined, hushed of voice and soft of smile.
It’s as though being apart from honest dealings
It implicitly transcends them, a higher
Zone for being privately understood:
A swift delicacy of transaction.
Yet, when spoken of by the world in rough
Accents, corruption in the term
Is brought down to its level, bad-mannered
Decrials fill the corrupt with revulsion.
Wistfully, the corrupt view justice for
Their deeds as being torn limb from limb by animals. |
