It was morning and light streamed through
the window as I sipped on my instant coffee.
The weather reporter’s mouth smiled
without mirth as he told us: 
‘Floods in Bangladesh, 
an earthquake in Taiwan, 
severe blizzards across Estonia.
But here in London, it was
a bright and breezy day,
with glimpses of sunshine.’
The world charmingly summarized 
in a cheerful thirty seconds burst.
Some are dying, and some drowning, 
and some are freezing,
but everything was fine here
with the bad coffee and the sunlight
that was trying to get in.

Leigh Doughty