Survival smothered

 The festival centre
carnaval and outdoor mall
aimlessness of a thousand hopers
Dancers wanters and dream marked goobers

following each other over the trail
Into the junction of strange shopfront leisure streets
Like little novelty trains that are set on tracks
Ones their tiny wheels cannot breach

their excited minds driving them on
Like a flashing school of fish
mistakenly boosting toward the surface
where predators meet from the air and the depths

Celebration given a space a structure
A fixed location where comfort and fun manifest
Where the will to survive is slowly smothered
Where the myth of enjoyment reigns