Any Capitalist Fantasy Will Do
1
white Lexus on lease
new suit, shoes, two day stubble
bubble? what bubble?
2
the wrecking balls swing
well-dressed ladies from Beijing
pose with hand on hip.
3
petals, debris, Spring
the air is sticky with greed
houses, for sale, sold.
The title comes from Brendan’s challenge over at Desperate Poets.
These haiku appeared at the height of the recent real estate boom in Vancouver; a boom that was driven by speculation, primarily by foreign buyers. Real estate became a commodity. Houses that had been around since the 1920’s were demolished and replaced by larger houses, some with an architectural style that had no context in the Pacific North West (white tiled French Colonial). Around where I live there was constant disruption: dump trucks, concrete trucks, agents knocking on my door, white Lexus’ (Lexi ?) driving up and down in front of the house every weekend, neighbours cashing in and leaving. Then like all bubbles, it burst or to be more exact, floated off to Toronto.
I have revised the post for Brendan’s Challenge
Stopdraggingthepanda 
LOVE the ironic title! So well said, Jim. I hear a one bedroom rental in Vancouver is now in the neighbourhood of $2500 a month – what hourly wage earner even MAKES that much a month ? The situation is dire. Pretty hard to get the genie back in the bottle at this point.
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LOVE the ironic title! So well said, Jim. I hear a one bedroom rental in Vancouver is now in the neighbourhood of $2500 a month – what hourly wage earner even MAKES that much a month ? The situation is dire. Pretty hard to get the genie back in the bottle at this point.
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That speculative real estate boom thrust globally, a worldwide thirst for concrete, steel and flattened horizons. Market captialism’s upward, turning “petals” to “debris.” (pungent fist there). Thanks for the brilliant #2 for Desperate Poets.
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Thanks Brendan!
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Unfortunately the debris remains behind…(here, endless half-empty glass towers). Well, there’s no end to greed, it just moves on to the next place to destroy. (K)
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I love how you link the wrecking ball of capitalism with any fantasy that fits including Chinese Capitalism.
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