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Paint Rain


It is raining paint
Red, Green and Blue
on streets, houses
cats, dogs, and you

It is raining hard
on a mob or a parade
all their flags, banners, rags
are both different and the same

(:
easy to see 
it is hard to tell, 
who's glad, who's mad
what to love, what to hate
:)

Trees and bushes
are paintbrushes
the grass below
the canvas, raw

The streets are rivers
of exotic snakes
the cars are turtles
in parking lot lakes

thunder and lightning
add sound and surprise
to all kinds of rain
painting down at once

Steady paint sets the stage
for heavy paint to come down
freezing rain drops statues
splashing on to the ground
 
the rain comes and goes
paints roofs, umbrellas
big strokes, tiny drops
it even paints the bugs

a tiny ant leaving
tiny ant footsteps
colored a whitish gray
on a spider's red web

enter the earthworms
crawling above ground
safe from the beaks
of painted ducks

Acid rain at last
like the old paint
at the rusty bottom of a can
fell and they ran

and ran for cover
to somewhere dark
untouched, bland
uniform, dugout

the rain stopped
as all rains do
this painted world
is unreal, old, new.
why who

the world's shortest poem is a dot
. but, only and only if it is not