Rain

Rain,
thunder in the east
the staccato of lightning bolts
as they shear their way through the boiling sky.
mud, thick and fathomlessly dark
clinging to passerbys
People hurrying by
locks of hair sticking
to hoods upraised and useless
prints, quickly erased
and forgotten by the
rain.

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