It is better to sleep safe than sorry

My girlfriend Spike
sleeps soundly in our bed tonight
oblivious to the news of a tsunami
warning ...

A TSUNAMI WARNING!

Don't panic!
.............Don't Panic!!
..........................DON'T PANIC!!!

It seems there is
no need to panic

because there is
no tsunami.

An earthquake struck
the southwest coast
of neighbouring
.....................New Zealand
(so there is indeed
no need to panic)

But you never know
your luck
or lack of it,
which would be bad
in either case,
because it seems there is
(or was)
the theoretical possibility
of an actual tsunami,

waves as tall as buildings
rising from the Tasman Sea
forced up and driven wild
by the immense power
of tectonic plates shifting
deep beneath the surface
of a world that is not finished
shaping and re-shaping
the contours of existence.

But I stress this point again
there is no need to panic

(SO DO NOT PANIC!)

because there is no tsunami
roaring across the Tasman Sea
to strike the southeast coast
of this, the great Downunder.

All of which must mean
my tired girlfriend, Spike
(who has, I will concede,
an unusual name for a young woman)
may sleep on safely,
oblivious, as she is,
to this the news:

.....although there has not been
.....a tsunami,
.....it is nevertheless true
.....that tonight,
.....at 7:22,
.....while my girlfriend Spike lay sleeping,
.....there could have been
.....not just the warning.

Australian east coast on tsunami alert after NZ earthquake (story in the Sydney Morning Herald)

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