The Rain

[bgmnts]

Hearing it outside pouring down. Imagining it washing the scum off the streets; the junkies the pimps the cunts.

Find myself sleeping like a baby. A baby in desperate need of a wee but can't be arsed to get up and go to the toilet. Because of the rain.

The rain.

[Glebe]

Some day a real rain will come and wash a load of babies into the gutter.

[Poobum]

Rain, running down bare cheeks, impregnating the tangles of wiry hair thick with the fruited blossom of dangleberries, before, oversaturated, a brown oozing seeps in forking trickles down white gooseflesh.