Thursday, 4 October 2018

A Slice of News

Disasters everywhere you look
Whether TV, radio or Facebook
More tsunamis, thousands die
Sulawesi* open to the sky
Cut off by crumbled roads and flood
No fresh water, streams of mud ...

Stocks and shares in disarray
House bills rising every day
Nuclear reactors on the blink
Pure air levels slowly sink
Too much traffic on the roads
The fate of diesel now implodes.

Summer drought needs compensation
Farmers fume in irritation
Ever fewer car park spaces
The RER put through its paces ...
STIB strike – age for pensions rise
But this is Belgium – no surprise!

(c) Poet in the woods 2018

*Along the Palu-Koro fault on 28/9/2018 - 5 aftershocks ...



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