Impoverished African Nations Poem by John Sensele

Yonder, fleshpots and creature comforts
Lies love, lofty life, living lads
Nimble norms, formal forts
Wives, widows, orphans whose pads

Bereft of beds, bread, butter
Staple seasoning, sumptuous samp
Boiled brisket, battered bans, burnt buns as a matter
Of neglect by a carousing camp

That worries about whims
To grow potbellies with a notorious neck
Who fattens and tames teams
Of kleptomaniacs and plutocrats who take

Voters for granted and reward looters
Who plunder national coffers to buy mansions
In Switzerland, the Bahamas and scooters
Which they flaunt to the detriment of impoverished African nations.