Cats and Dogs in Yorkshire

'Rain, rain, go away
Come again another day'
Children chime before driven home

The water table couldn't take it
Rain water churned with mud
like syrup down the high street

A car abandoned becomes a damm
The Ouse oozes past it
an unstoppable deadly path

Pretty York is pretty smelly
Restless drain dirt reanimated
the Christopher Lee of all nightmares

Ruined carpets and toys
Turning gently on the living room tide
lapping up provisions from the dogs bowl

Yorkshire men are a stoic breed
They come like that from mothers
used to pulling against a strong current

'Rain, rain, go away
Come again another day'
Children pray, forced into shelters

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