Power-drunk on ill-gotten gains; we floated on fluffy clouds, albeit, our clay feet, were shackled to mucky oligarchy
In our cold, calculating, innermost hearts, we sussed the real price of filthy lucre to be; a free ride to bottomless toxic seas.
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Corrupt state-asset bidding, birthed our monstrous brotherhood, a mob family, sworn to pillage and plunder
Our illegal sources of billion-dollar funds, and soiled reputations; rapidly and roundly laundered
The wiry, gnarled, gnomes of Zurich, licked their chops with a wink and nod; on board with the lawless, fetid, monopoly game
City of London CEO-fat-cats; grinned, purred and rolled over; lying down supine, shamelessly lame.
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Putin giveth and Putin taketh; without a moment's hesitation, we sold our souls, 'cos there is no free dinner
For our predatory, distended, bloated and insatiable croc-skin wallets; thin was never in
Champagne breakfast in London's Savoy, foie-gras lunch in Paris, caviar midnight supper in Moscow
A tiny taste of the lifetime swindle, great heist and ill-gotten gains, boundless cash flow.
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Superjets, megayachts, luxury cars; billionaire-status-toys, all essential starter-inventory
Rome's Bacchus; god of revelry and excess, upstaged and outplayed, by antiheroes of this sordid story
Proprietors of palaces, chateaus, mansions, villas, and grandiose penthouses, in every splendid, prime and privileged location
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