I love this storm

I love this storm

It’s interfering with my TV aerial

Wi-fi has a walking stick and needs help crossing the road

Storm clouds sob and sob

the sky is drained of colour.

I hope you didn’t like that plant pot.

 ‘Oops,’ says the storm

‘clumsy me.’

This storm has ripped open its top

and is standing on a mountain with a machine gun

laughing.

This storm should be on Netflix

I’m watching it mesmerised

like the first time you used your new speakers

when life was suddenly Dolby

The storm is doing things I wish I could do

I have transferred full ownership of my anger to this storm.

dropped off my keys: ‘take it for a ride.

I’ve put you on the insurance.’

It’s taken on the anger of the world

all the people in need, struggling, suffering

don’t need to worry about it anymore

let the storm deal with our anger so we don’t have to

and then it will stop

the world will be silent again

and all of us will feel a little better

like that moment you stop crying

and start to make some lunch.