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                                            Rain and Gasoline

                 Do you like the rain? Or do you think about it much?

                                               -Rod McKuen

Shoppers rattle their trolleys to their cars
An unexpected September thunderstorm
Splashes rain on the six-months-hot parking lot
Raising steam and hopes – will autumn ever come?

Thunderings rattle the ground and the air
From the service station up the concrete *****
Gasoline and diesel join the rivulets
In making iridescent the sloshing streams

Sale papers and cigarette ends float free
But only to the drains, not to the sea