On the Day The Rapture Happened
by
wood
On the day the Rapture happened,
The man in America
Who keeps a record
Of all the things happening in the world
So he knows when the Rapture will happen
Found that he'd got a hundred per cent
A hundred per cent chance of the end
That Jesus would come and take him away
And he went outside
And he waited
And he waited
And he waited a bit longer
And he looked at his watch
And he made himself a cup of coffee
And he went inside and he thought:
Back to the drawing board, then.
On the day the Rapture happened,
Nobody noticed that anything had come to pass
But a family in Jaipur wondered where
Grandad had wandered off to
And nobody wondered where
The girl who slept in a cardboard box
In a shop doorway
On a street
In Buenos Aires
Had gone to at all.
wood lives in swansea, where his activities include administrating the
john heron project