Suzanne Verrall
Doomsday
while the people were indoors
avoiding contagion
a kangaroo hopped
through the empty city streets
dolphins re-entered
the clearing river waters and
two giant pandas
mated
how quickly it all goes
to pot I thought
pouring boiling water
on my two-minute noodles
and how easily
it would never strike midnight
with no one around
to wind the clock
—Submitted on 05/05/2020
Suzanne Verrall lives in Adelaide, Australia. Her flash fiction, essays and poetry appear in Atlas and Alice, Flash Frontier, Archer Magazine, Lip Magazine, Poetry NZ Yearbook, and other journals. Online at suzanneverrall.com.
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