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TROUBLE AHEAD, TROUBLE BEHIND

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By Joseph Peschel © June 9, 2011
(apologies to The Grateful Dead)

Guidin that Arc
Out on a lark
Old man Noah better
Watch your wake
Trouble ahead,
Trouble behind
and you know that notion
just crossed my mind

This old flood
makes it on time
Leaves Gavin Point dam
at 150 thousand cfm
Hits McCook Lake
up around 1098.
At around 1102
you know it’s comin for you

Guidin that Arc
Out on a lark
Old man Noah better
Watch your wake
Trouble ahead,
Trouble behind
and you know that notion
just crossed my mind

Trouble ahead
No solid beachhead
Take my advice
you be better off dead
Engineers laughin:
“The height’s eleven-oh-2
It’s on the right track and
headed for you”

Guidin that Arc
Out on a lark
Old man Noah better
Watch your wake
Trouble ahead
Trouble behind
and you know that notion
just crossed my mind

Trouble with you is
The trouble with me
Got two good pumps
but we’re really just chumps
Come round the bend
You know it’s the end
The Army Guard screams
But the sump pump just gleams

Guidin that Arc
Out on a lark
Old man Noah better
Watch your wake
Trouble ahead,
Trouble behind
and you know that notion
just crossed my mind

Written by Joe Peschel

June 9th, 2011 at 12:20 pm

Posted in Light Verse