The people of Monsoon do not wear socks

It would be like us wearing hailstones

Besides, it’s always wet in Monsoon

“Teacher, I’m late because my house flooded.”

“That’s what you said last week; haven’t

Your parents fixed the floor yet?”

They do not understand why Next Door

Throws tubes of fabric at them through the portals

The learned scientists of Monsoon say

That the border is leaking

And only these odd sacks can make it through

Because of their special molecular configuration

And they definitely need an expensive government program to combat it

Likely from a special tax

“On what?”

“On cloth – we have plenty.”