Hurricane Tracks - Two Poems

Lawrence Hall
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Hurricane Tracks

What if your life were a hurricane map
Available upon a glowing screen
Or as a supermarket paper handout
With all of life gridded into neat squares

You then would know exactly what to do
And where to go, predicated upon
The latest scientific spaghetti
Curved colored strings ordering you aright

But you are free not to follow the lines
Because your life is not a gridded map




Hurricane Tracks – The Kirk Briggs Variant

What if your life were a hurricane map
Available upon a glowing screen
Or as a supermarket paper handout
With all of life gridded into neat squares

You then would know exactly what to do
And where to go, predicated upon
The latest scientific spaghetti
Curved colored strings ordering you aright

But you are free not to follow…oh…wait:
You could also stall, strengthen, or fizzle out!