A Stray Dog In the Rain

Poor doggy in the hard rain no umbrella to hide the pain housing society gates shoo them out space under parked cars in knee-deep troughs men and women stuck indoors, sip hot tea children barred from school sing do re me closed offices due to waterlogged streets white and black clouds play hide and seek sailed paper boats in the curly road water drowned by waves of passing vehicle tire memories of rain in the football field chase the ball on wet grass, slide on the heel a crow picks a crumb from claws of another quickly beaks a crumb lying in a corner