the catastrophe has already happened

...just thought I'd point that out, in case you were having one of your blackouts at the time ;)

RAIN HAIKU!

A small publishing house once invited me to write some haiku on the theme of 'rain', for a book they were doing. I did. The publisher went bust. So here they lie, a-moulderin'.

!This kind of weather
Is water off a duck's back
To taxi drivers

!That buzzing streetlamp
I clasp a sodden bouquet
Hornets in amber

!Starlings are watching
Folk fleeing the June shower
Umbrella Billiards