Italian scientists convicted over earthquake warning
The Telegraph, 22 October 2012
Not a day passes without a storm warning
though often there's not a cloud in the sky.
Those clear blue days are the longest.
Michael identifies clouds as they file
past the unbarred window of his prison cell.
Bars would only signify, beg to be read
like entrails. No jailer could be that cruel.
Once he was a star on TV, an oracle,
his fall as meteoric as it was total.
Now he fails to foresee hurricanes,
wild fires, monsoons, rising sea levels.
A tsunami triggered a loss of remission.
But now when he’s watching TV he sees
where he went wrong. However clement
there is always the threat of a storm.
(c) 2012 Slush Poet
