#poem #poetry #poemreading <br /><br />A reading of my poem "Rain."<br /><br />It’s raining today.<br />It’s a cold, dark, damp, miserable day out.<br />It seems that it rains almost every day in New York.<br /><br />Now, I get that rain is important.<br />I get that it waters the grass, the plants, the trees,<br />and replenishes the oceans, lakes, and rivers, but still;<br />it sucks when it rains almost constantly.<br /><br />Constant showers, constant downpours,<br />constant gusts of wind and rain;<br />it gets on your nerves after a while.<br /><br />Not only that,<br />but it’s really unusual to see occur in New York so often.<br /><br />From what I remember when I was younger,<br />it never rained so often.<br />There would be the occasional shower here and there,<br />but it wasn’t an almost daily or weekly occurrence.<br /><br />And why would it?<br />This isn’t the South or the Midwest where it’s humid a lot of the time<br />or where the weather is dynamic a lot of the time.<br /><br />No! This is New York. This is the East Coast.<br />The weather is supposed to be stable. It’s supposed to be temperate.<br /><br />To see rain almost every single day or week<br />makes me think that I stepped into the Twilight Zone<br />to a universe where New York has the weather of Seattle.<br /><br />I don’t know why the weather is like this for sure,<br />but I hypothesize it has something to do with climate change.<br />I believe that the exuberant emission of greenhouse gases<br />is dynamically changing the weather patterns in New York<br />to the point where it’s similar to Washington State or Florida weather<br />where it rains almost constantly.
