11. Scholomance

Off the dark lake the mist rises
& the Scholomance group meets.
Two hundred invitees. Billionaires?
Neoliberal grandees? Or, as
the conspiracy theorists declare,
vampires? If they are plotting
property booms, or a fatal flash
of bird flu, who knows, but they are
front page news in their Bentleys
& the blood is the life you tell
HR’s Mia. The city’s heart beats,
flooding commuters down its veins.
Of course the blood is the life.