"And hope that the toilet will flush" - what a way to end a poem! #Love it!
Sturm und Drang: how I love those words! Esp. as spoken by a native German. I butcher the accent like Hogan's Heroes did. (Early imprinting.) Authentic German sounds more beautiful to me than French. Thank you for a poem that starts out dark--the urgency, the rush to get out before the flood rushes in, the hasty decision on what to pack out other than your own self - but the poem finishes with a note of humor.