Our Electricity Is Out

out electricity went off no TV no internet no lights no computer no TV We live in an underground house it is blood black here I flip flashlights on along the way use my fingers to make puppets on the ceiling my husband rallies for a second thinking the lights have returned he is an optimist, but without a TV set now our hundred and fifteen pound puppy is whimpering She has never been inside the house without a TV talking we travel to the porch in a pack, my husband, two dogs and I It is a monsoon out here, a monsoon in Kansas I want to warm up a piece of pie but the microwave won’t work or the oven thunder rumbles in from the west the rain sounds like hail now we have been without TVs or computers for eighteen minutes How much more can we stand?