Together They Are All Happy... Poem by RIC BASTASA

Madam X says that the latest
military corruption saddens her,
and boasts that all these money
can never be a source of pride
and neither shall it cause her envy,

May God curse all of them, says
Madam X, her hair is white and
she still moves actively despite
her being 76,

on TV i watched the generals and
the accountants not blinking any
eyelash when they say they do not
really know what happened inside
the envelopes that contain the
millions now considered irretrievable.

they have square dignified faces.
smiles lurk inside their cheeks,
and on stress therapy, they will
sometime spend their beach picnic
somewhere in Miami.