HEAT WAVE
6/9/08
In the brain sweating heat of a June afternoon the illegal breeze blows into the room. The air conditioned hum makes the cat scratch at the screen door to come in. The sweat on my face is preferable to a clorine and urine bubble bath at a public pool. The dog pants heavily as he breathes in nicotine, before the smoke curls upward towards the ceiling.
Hot asphalt scinging the soles of shoes as oil vapors rise off the pavement. Blonde lady in a bikini walking down a private street looks for a private pool with no one home. The afternoon sun is half hidden in the mist of a chemtrailed sky. Birds are slightly audible hiding in the shade of leaves awaiting the feast of early evening mosquitos, that swarm near and on window screens. The heat wave is supposed to break the state record today reaching 97 degrees with 70 percent humidity.
L.A. STEEL
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