Posted in Light Verse

(with apologies to Edgar Allen Poe)

          Feel the scorching of the heat -

                    Desert heat!

What a world of misery the mercury does mete!

          As it rises, rises, rises

                    Daylight hours we all shun!

          Skin exposed soon ionizes

          And reports of our demises

                    Are no great exaggeration!

          For it ages, ages, ages

          Us in quick-succeeding stages

As it fricassees and flays us from our brains down to our feet!

          It's the heat, heat, heat, heat

                    Heat, heat, heat -

It's the searing, soaring, slashing summer heat!

{Copyright (c) 2005 C. Paden. All rights reserved.}