Saturday, October 13, 2018

Open Valentine

The rain is really open for business today
And means to sell off a coast or two
Next year a continent God willing
 
Politicizing the great plates of the world
With a superabundance of emotion
So the streams shift in their beds
 
Until it looks like rain is all the suffering
In the world so many little slights
Gathered into a relentless resignation
 
Which we children find great fun
Escaping the grownup’s distress
Paddling about in the streets
 
Drawn by our amphibian roots
To play with tragedy
In our rubber boots

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