<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Parched<br class=""><br class="">As the first few drops <br class="">fell on my face<br class="">I cried<br class=""><br class="">Why did it take so long<br class=""><br class="">Last winter<br class="">those who could remember drought<br class="">did, and began to murmur amongst themselves<br class=""><br class="">Those who wouldn’t<br class="">though they could have<br class="">didn’t, and didn’t sound the alarm<br class=""><br class="">So we sailed through spring<br class="">beginning to worry<br class="">though little was done <br class=""><br class="">When we blistered through July, August, September<br class="">and a voluntary reduction in use<br class="">we shrugged our shoulders<br class=""><br class="">That’s just the way it was<br class=""><br class="">Did we need also to turn off the sprinklers<br class="">allow the yards to brown<br class="">tell the golf courses to <span class="SpellE">astroturf</span> their greens<br class="">the vintners to fallow their fields<br class=""><br class="">Is this dry time a kind of payback<br class="">What did we not do<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>- Karl Frederick<br style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px;" class=""></div></body></html>