Outages

Outages

...the shorter the better.

The storm raged for a while
before the power went out.
Then the rain slowed to a trickle,
and I heard a thunderous clap
before the lights flickered off.

I thought to myself,
this could as easily be
an exploding transformer
as a bolt of lightning
darkening our block.
No matter which I knew
it would likely be hours
before power was restored.

So what do you do
when the powers goes out?

I went to bed,
tossed and turned,
took the dog out at 2am,
then got up at 6am.
About that same time
the lights came back on.

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Electricity is really just organized lightning.
~ George Carlin