Mid-Town Mean Season

These are times of constant

motion lurching forward

into the May rain season.

The mean season.

I saunter into the corner

store in midtown Omaha

and see the media drivel

news flash blink its constant

blank in the top corners of

the shops

headline - “midwest ravaged

by storms and tornados”

and last night’s thunder

boomer
over the worry-woe

of seasonal lightning flash

and wall-torrents of flood

rain, leaves us
soupy slick mud

puddles
and humider than humid
             day/nights
             next to metallic 
             cicada screech.

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(May 19th, 2013)