The difference between a river and a lake
is the difference between you and I:
destination.
And so much more beyond that,
like a dam bursting (common)
overused but nevertheless something to behold
I'd have to imagine.
Beyond the geometric, and the
ostracized engineers
and the intricate politics of faulty construction,
only a thoughtless
overly political
college freshman
would call it utopian,
and anyone who would dare describe a flood as 'cleansing,'
has never seen a goddamned flood,
but at the bottom of the Atlantic,
Mid-West,
there are no rivers or lakes,
just water waiting to breathe.