1/26/2004

Chance of
rain
by evening
they said
on the news
when
the alarm
went off
putting
and end to
my
hour long hearing
with
a clutch of
fears
insisting on
an audience
in which
I was obliged
to acknowledge
the legitimacy
of their claims
without succumbing
to the proposition
that I should
settle down
with them
for
a lifetime of
wedded bliss.