Your Poetry Dot Com - We Don't Do Earthquakes !, Do We ?

Hold the front page, raise alarms, catastrophe has struck
They say it registered 5.3 and caused widespread distress
Tranqulity at breakfast torn apart by disbelief
Not this time through cricket scores but the horror of the quake

Slates dislodged from rooftop perches, rubble thrust to ground
A neighbour's cat was traumatized, a garden wall collapsed
Did stiff upper lips all quiver ?, did mayhem rule the scene?
Our isolated island now aligned with wider world

For those momentous seconds, when earth would not stand still
T-shirts must be printed, exclaiming "I was there !!"
What learned scholar should we trust, appoint to head the team?
Advisor of our destiny , chief of Committee Shake.

The fabric of society, is stained with utter shock
What fate for this Utopia, our vulnerable little isle
Cobras in the flowerbed?, snakes lurking in the shower ?
Maybe even barracuda in the local village pond.

Where once sleep troubled only by the rising cost of fuel
Nightmares fuelled by visions of apocalyptic doom
We think, discuss, consult, deny that all they said was true
Because we live in England, we don't do earthquakes!!, do we ?

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