Visions of the
North
Scenario 2
Consumerland
"To write a poem after Auschwitz is
barbaric"
-Theodore
Adorno
I. Industrial Hub
mens rea--the presence
of a guilty mind"
He
reconsiders his mastery of the strange &
bizarre:
"The
definition of dead has changed, I tell you!
They
threw the body off the bridge
and
into the Peace River...."
So,
through the summer days,
we
sit drinking coffee on the wooden steps of our cottages,
considering
a project of cultural fitness:
the
imaging of Indians
as
self- perpetuating industry.
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