Rude Awakening Poem by Thomas Golding

Rude Awakening

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RUDE AWAKENING

The earth moved last night
I would have been overjoyed
If you had been responsible
My heaving palpitating bed
Was only a common earthquake
How very disappointing
Five point seven on the Richter scale
At a depth of twenty five kilometres
Ten kilometres northwest of Greytown
How very boring.

Thomas Golding
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Topic(s) of this poem: earthquake
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Lower Hutt. Wellington. New Zealand
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