04-26-2018, 03:00 PM
A message home
I won’t be home for dinner. Ask your mother
to feed the dogs, make sure the gates are locked.
If she needs money, tell her, ask her brother,
I’ll fix him up when I get back. Road’s blocked,
the traffic snarled and sprawled along the highway.
It must be big, whatever caused all this.
There’s smoke clouds in the city, sirens always,
a crowd of cops. A bomb that didn’t miss?
The skyline sits there where it should, but changed
a bit. What is the difference? Missing towers?
It could just be my angle, or the range.
I’ll work it out. I’ll be stuck here for hours.
The planes lined up to land have flown away.
Some bad’s gone down. Just what’s the date today?
I won’t be home for dinner. Ask your mother
to feed the dogs, make sure the gates are locked.
If she needs money, tell her, ask her brother,
I’ll fix him up when I get back. Road’s blocked,
the traffic snarled and sprawled along the highway.
It must be big, whatever caused all this.
There’s smoke clouds in the city, sirens always,
a crowd of cops. A bomb that didn’t miss?
The skyline sits there where it should, but changed
a bit. What is the difference? Missing towers?
It could just be my angle, or the range.
I’ll work it out. I’ll be stuck here for hours.
The planes lined up to land have flown away.
Some bad’s gone down. Just what’s the date today?