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[mb0u906a]

Walking through airport departures
I deconstructed, lonely as a cloud,
wondering 'what is a cloud anyway?'
a union of oxygen and hydrogen,
a transient arrangement of familial water molecules,
clustering as nomads to camp fires
around the tiny condensation nuclei that seed them into life;
pinpricks peppering the guts
of a thing so soft and fluffy,
all born out of hot air rising,
an uplift in relative humidity,
going wherever the wind blows,
until fall-outs precipitate a return to earth.

And I wondered how a cloud could be lonely,
whether the conditions necessary to form one cloud
mean that there is a significant likelihood that siblings will be born,
the solitary cloud so being a statistical outlier,
an anomaly,
a freak of nature,
perhaps that's how.

So I asked the Met Office about lonely clouds:
they told me that it just meant that the air was very dry
and not capable of holding many clouds,
they considered the single cloud rather unremarkable;
it turns out that there are a lot of lonely clouds out there after all,
which led me to conclude that
despite each cloud's personal loneliness,
they can take solace in the fact that it's not just them,
and that as an only child,
they're also guaranteed,
by birthright,
the very best of the weather.

[RebelRhymes]

Love it mate, not only a poem but meteorology and public information too.
Will have to link up again soon...

Talking of which, Is Speech Therapy still happening these days? I haven't been for a few months to be honest.

[mb0u906a]

Me neither. Next one is September so should see you at that?

[RebelRhymes]

There is a strong rumour on the underground that I may be making an appearance in September, but It's all a bit hush hush .