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.