once a home...

they perch on sites worth so many millions

above spanish banks and the burrard inlet -

these three modest pseudo-mansions of the 
last century now looking forlorn, abandoned

they have been sitting neglected for years 

in the overgrown and barely fenced off lots -

waiting for their inevitable demise to make

way for ever larger versions to rise again

once the residential pride of a few families

 such vanquished homes are now reduced to 

another boarded up desecration for those 

with the means to build bigger and biggest