Fully Baked
written by: Michael Ball
@whirred
Turtles, gators, lifeguards each and all
relish baking in the heat of our sun.
Silly, sissy Yankees may flail and moan
when hot visits and stays for days
while herps and Southerners enjoy it.
90F to one is misery, to another life.
What does a cold-blooded turtle on a rock
stretching its wrinkled neck sunwise
know of discomfort from too much heat?
Michael Ball scrambled from daily and weekly papers through business and technical pubs. Satisfaction and feeling like a writer came through blogging and podcasting, mostly political. Born in OK and raised in rural WV, he became more citified in Manhattan and Boston. He joined the Hyde Park Poets Workshop two years ago, and will never again write a manual or help system. He has moderate success placing poems in print and online.
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