Tanker full of jet fuel
rammed by cargo ship full of strychnine
North Sea dead sea
© Rachel Green February 2025
II.III
Her bedroom window sealed with plastic sheet
prevents her look out on Heathen Town
or escape that way if fire has broken out
although from six stories high she would fall down.
She heads instead into the living room
where from the stand she stole the TV set
and looks outside through cloud-filled snowfall gloom
at silent streets with no traffic as of yet.
The block of flats behind has open shades
where families do their very best to cheer
though poor, the people there are undismayed
with home-made decorations and cheap beer.
© Rachel Green February 2025
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