Here is the news.

The Eiffel Tower is missing;
on the Champs Elyssees, Big Ben
has just struck seventeen;
in Washington,
the Whitehouse staff awoke
to find the Penta
Gone.
We have unconfirmed reports
of its dramatic reappearance,
near St Peter’s Square
(In Rome).
The Vatican has
relocated to Islamabad;
three mosques
and the Golden Temple of Amritzar
have been sighted on the moon.

Back home,
in the High Street,
Boots, Woolworths and WH Smiths
are nowhere to be found
And residents on a council estate
have their world turned upside down.
as lifts in high rise blocks
take people up
from twenty five
to ground.

A spokesman from the MET
said, “There’s nothing to report as yet
about the missing weather.”

That’s all from the morning news team
this evening.

News Flash!
NASA can no longer locate the moon.
And Wolverhampton woman
loses mind.

Lost
Linda Nevill

This poem attempts to explore the feelings of unreality and detachment that can be experienced by people suffering with a panic disorder. The poem describes a world where nothing is as it should be.

Emma Purshouse