Bearing Gifts

" Bearing Gifts "

by Suzán Jiván
Mom & Mom-
Mom Suzán

Bearing gifts
looming large
courting favor
in fund raisers
of economic pain

dangling karats
in most cases
ripped away
as the string breaks

under the strain
of implications
like competing
payments
hidden under
kitchen tables

all around the nation
true for candidates
flirting with danger

"Be not afraid!"
while playing
Monopoly games
utterly unfazed

dice-driven irons
throwing snake eyes
soliciting hush money
upfront gone bankrupt,
" Well, I do declare! "...