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call it the greenhouse effect or whatever	A
but it just doesn't rain like it used to	B
I particularly remember the rains of the	C
depression era	C
there wasn't any money but there was	D
plenty of rain	E
it wouldn't rain for just a night or	F
a day	G
it would RAIN for days and	H
nights	I
and in Los Angeles the storm drains	J
weren't built to carry off taht much	K
water	A
and the rain came down THICK and	H
MEAN and	H
STEADY	L
and you HEARD it banging against	M
the roofs and into the ground	N
waterfalls of it came down	O
from roofs	P
and there was HAIL	Q
big ROCKS OF ICE	R
bombing	S
exploding smashing into things	T
and the rain	E
just wouldn't	U
STOP	V
and all the roofs leaked	W
dishpans	T
cooking pots	T
were placed all about	X
they dripped loudly	L
and had to be emptied	Y
again and	H
again	Z
the rain came up over the street curbings	T
across the lawns climbed up the steps and	H
entered the houses	T
there were mops and bathroom towels	T
and the rain often came up through the	C
toilets bubbling brown crazy whirling	S
and all the old cars stood in the streets	T
cars that had problems starting on a	C
sunny day	G
and the jobless men stood	A2
looking out the windows	T
at the old machines dying	S
like living things out there	B2
the jobless men	Z
failures in a failing time	C2
were imprisoned in their houses with their	B2
wives and children	D2
and their	B2
pets	T
the pets refused to go out	X
and left their waste in	E2
strange places	T
the jobless men went mad	F2
confined with	G2
their once beautiful wives	T
there were terrible arguments	T
as notices of foreclosure	A
fell into the mailbox	T
rain and hail cans of beans	T
bread without butter fried	H2
eggs boiled eggs poached	I2
eggs peanut butter	A
sandwiches and an invisible	J2
chicken in every pot	K2
my father never a good man	L2
at best beat my mother	A
when it rained	M2
as I threw myself	N2
between them	O2
the legs the knees the	C
screams	T
until they	G
seperated	M2
'I'll kill you ' I screamed	M2
at him 'You hit her again	Z
and I'll kill you '	P2
'Get that son of a bitching	S
kid out of here '	P2
'no Henry you stay with	G2
your mother '	P2
all the households were under	A
seige but I believe that ours	T
held more terror than the	C
average	Q2
and at night	M2
as we attempted to sleep	R2
the rains still came down	O
and it was in bed	M2
in the dark	S
watching the moon against	M2
the scarred window	M2
so bravely	L
holding out	M2
most of the rain	E
I thought of Noah and the	C
Ark	S
and I thought it has come	S2
again	Z
we all thought	M2
that	M2
and then at once it would	M2
stop	V
and it always seemed to	M2
stop	V
around or a m	O2
peaceful then	Z
but not an exact silence	T
because things continued to	M2
drip	T2
drip	T2
drip	T2
	-
	-
and there was no smog then	Z
and by a m	O2
there was a	C
blazing yellow sunlight	M2
Van Gogh yellow	M2
crazy blinding	S
and then	Z
the roof drains	T
relieved of the rush of	U2
water	A
began to expand in the warmth	V2
PANG PANG PANG	S
and everybody got up and looked outside	M2
and there were all the lawns	T
still soaked	M2
greener than green will ever	A
be	L
and there were birds	T
on the lawn	W2
CHIRPING like mad	M2
they hadn't eaten decently	L
for days and nights	T
and they were weary of	U2
berries	T
and	M2
they waited as the worms	T
rose to the top	V
half drowned worms	T
the birds plucked them	O2
up	-
and gobbled them	O2
down there were	A
blackbirds and sparrows	T
the blackbirds tried to	M2
drive the sparrows off	X2
but the sparrows	T
maddened with hunger	A
smaller and quicker	A
got their	B2
due	M2
the men stood on their porches	T
smoking cigarettes	T
now knowing	S
they'd have to go out	M2
there	B2
to look for that job	Y2
that probably wasn't	M2
there to start that car	Z2
that probably wouldn't	M2
start	M2
and the once beautiful	J2
wives	T
stood in their bathrooms	T
combing their hair	B2
applying makeup	-
trying to put their world back	S
together again	Z
trying to forget that	M2
awful sadness that	M2
gripped them	O2
wondering what they could	M2
fix for	F
breakfast	M2
and on the radio	M2
we were told that	M2
school was now	A3
open	D2
and	M2
soon	B3
there I was	T
on the way to school	C3
massive puddles in the	C
street	M2
the sun like a new	M2
world	M2
my parents back in that	M2
house	T
I arrived at my classroom	D3
on time	C2
Mrs Sorenson greeted us	T
with 'we won't have our	A
usual recess the grounds	T
are too wet '	-
'AW ' most of the boys	T
went	M2
'but we are going to do	M2
something special at	M2
recess ' she went on	E3
'and it will be	L
fun '	-
well we all wondered	M2
what that would	M2
be	L
and the two hour wait	M2
seemed a long time	C2
as Mrs Sorenson	D2
went about	M2
teaching her	A
lessons	T
I looked at the little	J2
girls they looked so	M2
pretty and clean and	M2
alert	M2
they sat still and	M2
straight	M2
and their hair was	T
beautiful	J2
in the California	C
sunshine	F3
the the recess bells rang	S
and we all waited for the	C
fun	D2
then Mrs Sorenson told us	T
'now what we are going to	M2
do is we are going to tell	G3
each other what we did	M2
during the rainstorm	H3
we'll begin in the front row	M2
and go right around	M2
now Michael you're first '	-
well we all began to tell	G3
our stories Michael began	L2
and it went on and on	E3
and soon we realized that	M2
we were all lying not	M2
exactly lying but mostly	L
lying and some of the boys	T
began to snicker and some	S2
of the girls began to give	I3
them dirty looks and	M2
Mrs Sorenson said	M2
'all right I demand a	C
modicum of silence	T
here	J3
I am interested in what	M2
you did	M2
during the rainstorm	H3
even if you	M2
aren't '	-
so we had to tell our	A
stories and they were	A
stories	T
one girl said that	M2
when the rainbow first	M2
came	K3
she saw God's face	T
at the end of it	M2
only she didn't say which end	M2
one boy said he stuck	S
his fishing pole	L3
out the window	M2
and caught a little	J2
fish	M3
and fed it to his	T
cat	M2
almost everybody told	M2
a lie	N3
the truth was just	M2
too awful and	M2
embarassing to tell	G3
then the bell rang	S
and recess was	T
over	A
'thank you ' said Mrs	T
Sorenson 'that was very	L
nice	T
and tomorrow the grounds	T
will be dry	N3
and we will put them	O2
to use	T
again '	-
most of the boys	T
cheered	M2
and the little girls	T
sat very straight and	M2
still	O3
looking so pretty and	M2
clean and	M2
alert	M2
their hair beautiful in a sunshine that	M2
the world might never see	L
again	Z
and	M2