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Before the Flood

Why did he promise me
that we would build ourselves 
an ark all by ourselves 
out in back of the house 
on New York Avenue 
in Union City New Jersey 
to the singing of the streetcars 
after the story of Noah whom
nobody believed about 
the waters that would rise 
over everything when I told 
my father I wanted us to build 
an ark of our own there 
in the back yard under 
the kitchen could we do that
he told me that we could 
I want to I said and will we
he promised me that we would 
why did he promise that 
I wanted us to start then
nobody will believe us
I said that we are building 
an ark because the rains
are coming and that was true
nobody ever believed we
would build an ark there 
nobody would believe 
that the waters were coming.