No Impediment to Triumph (Bhopal)

Just reeks of squalid victory
It drifts downwind does this squalid camaraderie
Play to the gallery with wooly humanity
As valued above — well above the valueless
Pumped up, trumped up, shrugged off
No impediment to triumph
Rings burned into the retina, transfixed
Back handed unity
Bhopal gags on the reverie
As valued above — well above the valueless
So easily slipped are shackles of culpability
No impediment to triumph.
Brandish the torch that shines no light
On the wretched and malformed
At pains to sustain
But the only thing sustained
Is free rein for a mass poisoner
A triumph? No