Monday on a hot tin roof.

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Thoughts/feelings that just might not matter:

It’s hot. Hot hot heat. Sultry. Thick air.
The air conditioning in “my” office today is broken.
Not functioning.
Maybe it will get fixed by noon?
Maybe it will take two hours after that for the building to cool down?

Maybe far away
Or maybe real nearby
He may be icing her coffee
She may be loosening his tie.

Oh, Lord, take me now.
The lights are going off
To cut down on the heat
The clothes are coming off
To cut down on the heat
AND intensify the nausea
Depending on which direction you look.

Someone should be FIRED for this!
I think it should be me.
Sure, I have nothing to do with the cooling system
But I could go see a mooooovie
Or sabotage a Wal-Mart
Or explore a bookstore
Or hit the gym
Or grab some groceries
In air-conditioned comfort.

Good thing I wore thin boxers
Probably ten years old
Straining to hold together at the seams
Just to remain useful to their masters:
Me, my hips, and my rain forest of a crotch.

Bad thing I wore a thick undershirt
It feels like a layer of mozzarella
On my torso.
My blood is boiling marinara
Under my doughy skin.

CAN ANYONE HEAR ME SCREAM?
INSIDE MY HEAD LIKE THIS?
AHHHHH!

I’m hot, so hot.
I wanna go home and puke in my own toilet
Which, of course, this job allows me to rent.
Thank you, hot job.
Envelope me in your sticky hand.

Quotopia
Freshly-picked quotes from the ol’ reference collection:

It was luxuries like air conditioning that brought down the Roman Empire. With air conditioning their windows were shut, they couldn’t hear the barbarians coming.
Garrison Keillor

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