If you see fire


from the ABC set Poems of the Middle

If you see fire
operate the alarm
no sound
will be heard
and smoke will be called

tell any location
follow
emergency instructions
for fire or smoke

Do not take risks

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Comments

Sooz006 | January 26, 2008 - 13:31

And don't take the batteries out of the smoke detector so that you can have a crafty fag in the back room at work despite it being illegal.

This is good because with the poem you've also created characters. I can just see a little old lady reading the instructions in front of the alarm glass and getting very confused, or a polish immigrant, or a college professor who'd want to 'correct' it and make order of it rather than breaking the glass and raising the alarm. Yep, like this.