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labellementeusebig weather city
sometimes my big weather city
likes to express her disapproval
at teenagers kissing on the streets,
goths smoking by the traffic lights,
girls wearing very few clothes
by opening her skies and chasing them away.
only on her less tolerant days;
when she's feeling kindly she encourages them
with hot skies and a breeze,
like a hand stroking your hair.
this big weather city likes her people tough;
she makes businessmen wrestle with umbrellas
and students sprint for the old trolley buses
that run clinkety clankety, clinging precariously
to the wires that run overhead.
you could get a lot of exercise in the big weather city;
some days, if the wind is blowing in the right direction
each step is an aerobics class.
our big weather city's favourite people
have hairstyles they like to let blow in the wind,
skirts designed to stream and not billow;
when she opens her skies to chase us away,
we want to run out to the curbs and laugh at her.
sometimes my big weather city
likes to express her disapproval
at teenagers kissing on the streets,
goths smoking by the traffic lights,
girls wearing very few clothes
by opening her skies and chasing them away.
only on her less tolerant days;
when she's feeling kindly she encourages them
with hot skies and a breeze,
like a hand stroking your hair.
this big weather city likes her people tough;
she makes businessmen wrestle with umbrellas
and students sprint for the old trolley buses
that run clinkety clankety, clinging precariously
to the wires that run overhead.
you could get a lot of exercise in the big weather city;
some days, if the wind is blowing in the right direction
each step is an aerobics class.
our big weather city's favourite people
have hairstyles they like to let blow in the wind,
skirts designed to stream and not billow;
when she opens her skies to chase us away,
we want to run out to the curbs and laugh at her.
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Date: 2006-11-17 09:08 am (UTC)In Christchurch, it just rains. Especially when we want to go to the A&P show. *grrs at rain*
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Date: 2006-11-17 09:12 am (UTC)thank you. my god I forgot how schizophrenic the weather here is though. you know how here it rains all day and then suddenly at half past two it clears and is gorgeous? or it rains INCREDIBLY hard for twenty minutes, then slow, then HARD, then slow... and wind. mmmm wind I missed cold wind.
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Date: 2006-11-17 06:59 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-11-25 09:30 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-11-17 10:47 pm (UTC)"this big weather city likes her people tough"
Because it's so true. And Aucklanders wonder why we laugh at them when they complain about the weather.
You manage to capture the city's "character" perfectly.
Great Poem :)
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Date: 2006-11-25 09:31 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-11-18 11:46 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-11-19 09:45 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-11-25 09:31 am (UTC)'ello
Date: 2006-11-20 07:18 am (UTC)i posted a coment on my own entry i am souch a retard tehe
shudup i no you are laughing at me!!!
tehe i jus wanted to say thankyou soooooo much for helpong me set up my lj but no doubt ill b3e asking you to help me do something or arther soon so ya thanks in advance for that
xxxx
Re: 'ello
Date: 2006-11-25 09:31 am (UTC)