team canada

between the rivers where the cinders coalesce into architecture
and the smoke metamorphoses a million dreams into nightmare shades
where vision fades long before the horizon
and nestled in cubicles autocratic entrepreneurs strive
hourly replenishing their phantasms and addled ambitions
with trampled, casked, fermented, distilled and bottled desperation

here the flesh is rendered impalpably insignificant
here the eyes rotate in their sockets and bore through the backs of skulls
yet retrospection cannot encompass or decipher
the enormity of the situation this predicament is in