mr. id (tsunami)

a love story

Mr. Id
was a science teacher
and his class was a sea
of tears and righteous
indignation.

The Tsunami alarms went off at 5 am
as he was struggling to pee.
The road-kill corpses were minced
by the added traffic out of town
and the school parking lot had a
television crew.

As if they were already drowning
the children were wary of the school’s architecture.
Maybe to many movies where everyone drowns in a submarine
or maybe Mr. Id just liked to picture everyone drowning.
Is it bad to imagine everyone drowning?
‘In mute nostril agony carefully refined, and sealed over.’

In the science class they watched the cows drown on Japanese TV.
That and no wave
were the tragedies of the day.