Agung
goes off
The second last line
of the story  was your
thirty thousand
bodies    brown 
all tense
in shelters
 beneath the waked
 Fire Mountain
while hob-nobbers  cut-price
johnnies  ladies haired in henna red
over-packers  bargain-getters
pictured  
leaning     fingers out
on the counters 
at the airport
look here
look here
the story             how
the white people
got stuck on holiday
when the ash flew
and the molten rock
began to inch 
towards your 
life   chickens 
clothes
furniture
your school
was all above 
your head
 
ah the over-packers!
ReplyDeleteand the mountain
off its scone
ReplyDeletevery topical
I've never been
old hippy friends
who were there 45 years ago
say don't bother
still I figure they know
something I don't
about concentrated trouble
in a very small place
so I just might go
someday