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The standard California rain
Is slow and straight and grey.
Thunder, rare, and variation
Seldom breaks the solid sky.
Is it easier, you ask,
To ride this smooth low plane,
Avoiding changing light? You may
Just wait, wait for the full
Clear day. Why tax your pupils?
But, no, now, right now,
This now, these nows, know
That today in California, rain
Is tending tropical. Mixing
Steely greys and swinging yellow
Melancholy then green white bright
Blue. Lines, both curved and straight
Transect. The sines and signs of chaos
Swirl. Is this more difficult,
You ask, to climb and fall with
Greater speed?
This, no, this rain contains
All accoutrements of light
And dark that you will need
To waken as the droplets fall
Today.
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