when the
power goes out
the fuse
gets blown on your
assumptions
of cooking dinner
on time, of
watching your favourite
TV program,
of listening to the current CD
when the
power goes out
and you
don’t know when it’ll
be back,
what can you do but search
for all the
torches find the candles, the matches,
the
headlamps so you can cook hands free not in the dark
when the
power goes out
you think
about the future, a
time when
climate change will
blow all the
fuses as we swelter in
homes not
built for un-air-conditioning
when the
power goes out
you think of
all the generations
who lived
before us without electricity,
about the
raw heat and cold, the competence
of life
without mod cons, plasma and instant music
when the
power goes out
you know
that one day you
will need to
do more than just
plan to give
up coffee, since one long
black is
equal to twenty-five light globes
when the
power goes out
you sit and
think too much
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