Due Here

Think a wave above the wave,
What the authorities call an overload.

An official says “I haven’t the foggiest
Notion of what will happen then”

As if we do, as if we weren’t the fog itself.
Miami says it is already at its “breaking point,”

So, we break it. We’ll break it again.
We are crossing into a state of emergency,

Of a shattered record, of rented medical facilities
and portable toilets, of bus tickets if you’re lucky.

It is one thing to be expected, another to be due.