sorry, no autumn this year —
earth didn’t pay the subscription fee
after the free trial of summer ended
snarky
My heart
God completed my heart
then you finished it —
mortal combat style
Wilted
The past falls away in wilted petals,
New things will come, probably nettles.
Unreasonably warm in Phoenix
We live in an Arizona desert town
where winter is brown and green
and summer is green and brown
with 300 annual days of sunscreen
our autumn’s unreasonably warm
and springtime is mostly too hot
here we live for every rainstorm
and the seasons—well, they’re not.
Sonoran seasons
Winter in Phoenix is springtime
Spring is summer askew
Summer is torturous hellfire
Autumn is summer part II
Humanity in roads
When I’m out and about, people are annoying idiots. When I’m home alone, all mankind is loving and good.
Weather reports 2023
PHOENIX, ARIZONA
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JULY 19
july the nineteenth
overnight low temp
of ninety-seven degrees
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OCTOBER 19
october nineteenth
one hundred and three degrees
climate change is hoax
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NOVEMBER 6
day before winter
ninety-three degrees
summer-autumn in phoenix
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NOVEMBER 8
dear gods of weather —
will it ever rain again
in bone-dry phoenix?
* * *
NOVEMBER 14
now a week into winter
high: eighty-eight F degrees
that’s not fahrenheit
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NOVEMBER 18
i begged & pleaded
for rain but now bemoaning
winter mosquitoes
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DECEMBER 6
really, december:
high of eighty-two degrees?
oh no you didn’t!
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DECEMBER 21
on midwinter day
seventy-seven degrees
a sunburned solstice
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¡Peligro!
Evolution: one small step for man, one giant leap backward for mankind.