Rain Reasoning
John Grey

Rain happens.
It doesn’t listen in on conversations.
Not to a child, a parent. God. Anyone.

It’s a property of metrological conditions.
Like a kid in the back seat of a car,
sometimes a cloud just has to burst.

Rain’s no wire-tapper.
It’s not like one of those biddies
in a restaurant whose heads
almost jerk off their necks
to overhear what you are saying.

It’s all to do with moisture and wind
and temperature and gravity.

Yes, you’re unhappy
and it’s raining.
But it’s coincidence, I assure you.
I just told the rain the same thing.

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