Well, slumpy, call me a fool but I somehow think the old lady will pull through without a catastrophic collapse (that's more a hope than anything based on fact).

That's not to say that there have not been collapses within the structure and the damage and losses due to those collapses will not be a reflection on those who could have foreseen them and, had they acted more quickly, may have prevented them. We did our best, prodded tigers and rattled cages, but the bureaucratic machine rolls ever on, a mindless creature set on mindless theatricals...

But you already knew that, re: your poem published elsewhere.