Lawrence Hall, HSG
Dispatches
for the Colonial Office
Rain and Gasoline
Do you like the rain? Or do you think about it much?
-Rod McKuen
Shoppers rattle their trolleys to their cars
An unexpected September thunderstorm
Splashes rain on the six-months-hot parking lot
Raising steam and hopes – will autumn ever come?
Thunderings rattle the ground and the air
From the service station up the concrete slope
Gasoline and diesel join the rivulets
In making iridescent the sloshing streams
Sale papers and cigarette ends float free
But only to the drains, not to the sea
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