Learning again to live rationally with the heat asks
more than you’d planned to concede, & we’re true
blue when the need is examined; there’s decades
of experience, tropics in the main, where humidity
and shade’s th’ key to being where a fan’s breeze
works miracles, if you slow your pace and dress a
lot less dramatically, & Versace isn’t always a key
to feeling you’ll harmonise with these elements of
a bygone age 200 years ago; oh, & how time flies
when you’re standing still - well it isn’t the same &
we know it; the past few days are out-of-character
excerpts from faraway heat-mystery-classics we’d
been granted as overactive figments of deranged,
and stressed emigre’s imaginative appeal, and of
which we’re neither - we’ve lived here most of our
lives, so tell me why then this sweat’s still surreal
© 1 February 2016, I. D. Carswell
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