Millenium Fever
(New Year’s Eve, 2000)
The world holds a collective breath
The specter of Y2K looms
Darkly on the western horizon
Like a fabled tsunami
Rolling all the way from Japan
Stock markets crash
Free falling
The economy
Plummets
Through time and space
To meet the future
Hate crime is on the rise
Promising to become a Holy War
An oily filth clings to
The underside of clouds—
Godzilla’s breath?
Copyright © Judith Ritter Leigh | Year Posted 2005
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