Unsheathe the final report, the digest of findings from the task force commission on is this really happening

A lot of can't about law and order

The daunting calculus of an enduring failure

What must be tolerated?

What does it take to mitigate disaster?

And how long?

How long to file a shiv arrogant enough to puncture the great trust?

Whether red tape inquiries or blue ribbon initiatives, the race to the bottom crowns everyone for their efforts

Skin the blubber on Walkerton and the Westray Mine and the muscle works are bleak

At bone: the pumping mantra of mala prohibita and the obituary is complete

Regulations with the shelf life of milk and rye

And formal charges that of cut flowers

Argued into obsolescence

Interests valorized, benefits conferred

The race to the bottom yields avenues of success

But the race to the bottom is not without redress

The hounds will be along soon

One last goodbye to the spoils of failure

One last goodbye to the stock rewards

Here they come