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The California Heat Wave Broke, But ...

I'm still too hot! A poem:

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Sally Shideler
Sep 14, 2022

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I was positively broiling

Underneath the desert sun

And taking just one step meant toiling

Desert life was just no fun!

The heat dome parked atop my state

Seemed to want to put down roots.

But something made it dissipate

And then, working in cahoots,

The air pressure and the winds

From Kay, the hurricane

Combine and slam the coastline

And inland, it drops some rain!

Now it's thirty degrees cooler

Than it was just last Tuesday,

But I must be a fool, or

I wouldn't count on it to stay.

The clouds soon part and I despair

The mercury hits ninety

Oh, this sucks; it isn't fair

Do I sound a little whiny?

I'm glad for slightly cooler skies

And I know that they’ll get better

But I still have stars in my eyes

Dreaming of my favorite sweater!

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