Plutocrats

plutocrats

ticks 

cockroaches

one is at best

useless

at worst

actively evil

one lives on trash

scattering in the light

one is a bloodsucking 

arthropod

you have to look closely

to tell the difference

Astray

i walked a narrow mile through the wild

guiding those i had with wiles beguiled

killers, schemers, thieves consumed by greed

dispatching detractors to add them to the feed

we trod the path enjoying fruits of power

took our time and made the throne room in an hour

and none could stop our rise though so few tried

wealthy liars with hopeful poor beside

we undermine their rights before their eyes

for none can now distinguish truth from lies