Things you could not have divined or imagined

Are now a dystopian reality

There’s not much left of humanity –

Was this predestined?

Or was this always the nature of your God

Of superior intelligence

And advanced technology

Who belonged not in a church but in a laboratory?

These strange times would be fascinating to you –

War of the World – Episode Two…

The chances of anything comparing to SARS

Was a million to one – they said.

So, it’s a shame really that you’re dead

And every time I hear that soundtrack I’m all the way back

To the smell of hot leather in the emerald Capri –

A misremembered German landscape scrolling past like the credits

At the end of my childhood.