how to claim a title...

How to claim a title:

The plot's fantastic. Take a house close to an intended victim,
known from childhood, play your game, pick your friends,
keep them close, barter and butter them up with promises.
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The gold: slipped out of old wills and trust funds, as your victim
disgorges information; in a splay of humanity, and carefully noted.
All informaton gathered in shown to as your own.
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With luck the victim never knows: if they have a skill, replicate it.
If their child has a disability, reproduce it, plot, scheme and smile
If they win anything: take it. The poor can never claim it back.
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You already removed the legal aid, paid off the councils,
involved the politicians, moved around, slandered the victim
with details of your own life. It's all or nothing....
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and is it worth it? Buy their debts, gained since their job was lost,
while you smiled behind their backs, and ask them for 7 times the cost.
Harrass them to their last wish, then step back.
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"You're not the one who claimed." you say: a crocodile tear slips west.
"It's just that they wanted someone better, someone prettier, more like us..."
A fragile kiss: this last wish, a traitor's truth.
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A cross. A last step: the noose tightens,
tell the grandchildren, all carefully taught in sweetness and civility
not to say how they shoot people with electric guns.
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"It's us! You'll have your pony, we'lll all be the rich relations,
the best of all there is, that's us. All our new friends will love us,
because if they don't, there's always,,, us..."