Noah's Flood comes in!A Poem by MarshallThe bristles on the boulevard clicked and clopped splattered into flat rain drops sped to join bodies with other playmates now rushing to the rivulet gathering into a big bang of floodwater which nobody watched with physics and formulas. The pin-striped drops that caused a rising revolution, spears dangling for brief seconds in a war cry of splosh-splashes finally raced to lower ground to bring down the dam and city and invade peoples front porches and backyards armed with mud and silt and strawberry colored slime. The night was camouflaged with raindrops on the roof all with the same intention. Children went to sleep as parents drank whisky and prayed for such a thunderous night of rhythmic staccato symphonies. Tomorrow the rain would recede and the fields would be fertilized down to the roots. Or so they thought. The flood crept up to their toes and emptied the refrigerator of its half-eaten sandwiches. The carpets soaked up the spilling sauce and ironically the windows locked tight to keep out the rain! As the floods subsided the newspaper got their headlines: ONCE IN FORTY YEARS! it shouted for a dollar and twenty Everyone read the papers on how the neighbors got caught. Cruel b******s always poking into other peoples business. Two days later the sun returned to cause a heat wave. And everyone prayed for rain!. © . All rights reserved, a month ago© 2014 Marshall |
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