You know Carl still lives in Santa Cruz
He said
Went down to see the tsunami
There it was
Nothing much
Just some boats bumping into each other
A few kids washed off a jetty
Not like that hungry dragon that swamped Japan
But they are talking about the fault off the Northwest
They say that when that comes it will be big
Wipe out the Space Needle maybe or
Boeing or Microsoft
He chuckles at the thought
Erased cities
Some titillating disaster
Far away
Someone else’s business
Sparrows fight over scraps in the parking lot
A minor food riot beneath our noses
The subject changes
The subject changes
I used to have a car, an old Porsche
Restored it myself
A lucky sparrow flies away
with a
scrap of croissant
others pursue in vain
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