I Hate It When People Run From The Rain

Poem and photo by Anthony Reynolds (thanks, xxx)

I hate it when people run

From the rain

As if water would leave scars

Much less

Leave a stain

Across the street they go

In Tokyo

In Soho

And just what is it

That makes me walk so slow

That gives me the strength

To be

Soaked right on through

It's not the knowing of why it is they run

But of what it is they

Run

To