Insurance

The billionaires are doubling down
no matter what we think  
so certain now they wear the crown
with crisis on the brink.
 
They'll watch us burn, like Nero did,
all from their heaps of cash,
then have contractors underbid
on lots of smoking ash.
 
The New Year lost no time at all
to show us how it goes,
when ex-urban investment sprawl
burns faster than it grows...
 
all to teach us that in the deed
is where we've put our faith;  
that no torch would convey our greed...
away like the portent wraith.