“Bad Timing” — A Poem

 

Gas rates

sharply drop.

 

Radio says

rising supplies

of North American crude

are pushing prices down

while reducing dependency

on foreign oil.

 

Good news, I suppose,

but

why the day after I fuelled?

 

(Editor’s note: poet Shai Ben-Shalom, an Israeli-born biologist, examines current events in the Blacklock’s tradition each and every Sunday).

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