Gangster Town

 

A giant gothic structure

where concrete blocks

keep democracy at bay

 

Gangster Town

a wind tunnel

an echo chamber

of futile banter

 

Gangster Town

the talking shop

of little earthly use

a cavern of deceit

 

Gangster Town

the casino of corruption

where nests are feathered

and plummage preened

 

Gangster Town

a Victorian facade

of international noteriety

and psuedo nobility

 

Gangster Town

drinks at cut prices

expenses paid in full

a place to nod off

 

Gangster Town

the throbbing pulse

where tangled veins

weave sack cloth for the poor

 

Gangster Town

a protected fortress

against its own kind

a bastion of limpid democracy

 

Gangster Town

where propoganda is born

to seduce and cheat

to promise and not fulfil