It rained all night, it poured all day
“In pipe stems” as the Dutch would say
(Our “cats and dogs” I’ve never got
Since neither like the rain a lot)
But I digress: enough to make
The Almyritha Parking Lake –
A water body that will form
In minutes if there is a storm.
It’s not surprising, who would dream
Of building hotels in a stream,
Especially when it cannot reach
The sea for buildings on the beach.
The Gavalachori catchment zone
Is huge, and Crete we know is prone
To massive quantities of rain
So anyone with half a brain
Would leave the river its own bed
And build them somewhere else instead.
Last night, just left there by the flood,
The tons of rocks, the yards of mud,
Were mute, compelling evidence
That humans haven’t got much sense.
