Cahoots
Cahoots - meaning Summary
Collusion and Casual Corruption
A mock-conspiratorial speaker jokes and cajoles about stealing a city, treating corruption as routine and profitable. The voice names power figures and petty criminals together, presenting collusion as a casual game where legal and moral restraints are shrugged off. The poem’s slangy, taunting tone exposes systemic corruption and a culture of dodge-and-fix, letting readers sense both bravado and moral emptiness beneath the swagger.
Read Complete AnalysesPLAY it across the table. What if we steal this city blind? If they want any thing let 'em nail it down. Harness bulls, dicks, front office men, And the high goats up on the bench, Ain't they all in cahoots? Ain't it fifty-fifty all down the line, Petemen, dips, boosters, stick-ups and guns-what's to hinder? Go fifty-fifty. If they nail you call in a mouthpiece. Fix it, you gazump, you slant-head, fix it. Feed 'em ... Nothin' ever sticks to my fingers, nah, nah, nothin' like that, But there ain't no law we got to wear mittens-huh-is there? Mittens, that's a good one-mittens! There oughta be a law everybody wear mittens.
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