Villanelle again

Still working on the Villanelle form; it's difficult but not impossible.  Difficult mostly because it's easy (as the following poem demonstrates) to keep to short thoughts without any great ongoing flow.  Anyway, this one is probably still a work in progress.   See the notes at the bottom for some explanations.

All Governments suck up to the rich

With tax loopholes by the score;

The fat aren’t found dead in a ditch.

Every two years a major bank glitch

With the underpaid caught in the maw;

All Governments suck up to the rich.

A vacuous, empty human witch

Spends with extravagant hiss and roar:

The fat aren’t found dead in a ditch.

Politicians make a strong pitch

For tobacco exemptions in law

All Governments suck up to the rich.

Here’s a somewhat unpleasant hitch:

Pepper spray in the Occupy war;

The fat aren’t found dead in a ditch.

I’m struggling to maintain my pitch:

The affluent versus the constant poor.

Governments suck up to the rich -

The fat aren’t found dead in a ditch. 

The pepper spray incident at UC Davis was caught on camera by dozens of people using mobile phones, iPhones and more.  The link is to a ten-minute video of the whole event in which riot policeman Lt John Pike stood over a seated row of protesting students and purposely pepper-sprayed them.  Though it's not clear on the videos, it was done by other police as well, some of whom forced open students' mouths and sprayed down their throats.