We Were Wrong

"I can't breathe"
she said to me
as I float beside her
in the debris.
The city warps.
I saw a corpse
waiting at the corner
heading towards the ports
with his thumb up in the air
and checking for cab fare
in his walloped wallet;
there's nothing there.

The waters rose.
We all froze.
We were wrong
and nobody knows.
We're stuck here
locked in flooded fear.
We were wrong
and there's nobody near.
We were wrong
that it wouldn't be long,
that the howling rain would cease.
My God, we were wrong.

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"If it keep on raining, the levee's gonna break. Everybody saying this is a day only the Lord could make..." Bob Dylan The Levee's Gonna Break