Rain by Jaime David

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A reading of my poem "Rain."

It’s raining today.
It’s a cold, dark, damp, miserable day out.
It seems that it rains almost every day in New York.

Now, I get that rain is important.
I get that it waters the grass, the plants, the trees,
and replenishes the oceans, lakes, and rivers, but still;
it sucks when it rains almost constantly.

Constant showers, constant downpours,
constant gusts of wind and rain;
it gets on your nerves after a while.

Not only that,
but it’s really unusual to see occur in New York so often.

From what I remember when I was younger,
it never rained so often.
There would be the occasional shower here and there,
but it wasn’t an almost daily or weekly occurrence.

And why would it?
This isn’t the South or the Midwest where it’s humid a lot of the time
or where the weather is dynamic a lot of the time.

No! This is New York. This is the East Coast.
The weather is supposed to be stable. It’s supposed to be temperate.

To see rain almost every single day or week
makes me think that I stepped into the Twilight Zone
to a universe where New York has the weather of Seattle.

I don’t know why the weather is like this for sure,
but I hypothesize it has something to do with climate change.
I believe that the exuberant emission of greenhouse gases
is dynamically changing the weather patterns in New York
to the point where it’s similar to Washington State or Florida weather
where it rains almost constantly.