I just want to be very clear
that the Texas Summer is really here
with temperatures over one hundred degrees
and getting hotter with each passing day
with a forecast high of one hundred and eight
before this front will go away.

Heat does not come as a surprise
as it happens to us every year
generally though one hundred is high
with a blazing sun and no clouds in the sky
but to get up to be one hundred and eight
is hot even in this Lone Star State.

Thank goodness for A/C in both car and home
without it we would be cooked to the bone
like a roast well done and cooked thru and thru
our bodies absorbing the sun’s powerful rays
the heat going on for days and days
until it breaks and the weather subdues.

What brought on this bout of heat
or is it just an abnormal year
is Global Warming a part of the mix
or is Nature just playing us tricks
something we shall never know
as our understanding is way too slow.

In the forty years I have been in this State
only once has it reached one hundred and eight
in Dallas probably thirty years ago
at a soccer tournament in which I played
the hottest I have ever been
but I survived ready to do it again.

Too old to play and too feeble in mind
this time around I’ll stay indoors
and wait out the heat until it cools
back to one hundred at which we fools
go on hikes or work out in the yard
and kid ourselves it’s not so hard.

Seriously though it is very hot
living in Texas it’s part of our lot
the summer is hot and we all complain
as the heat every year is the same
it gets to one hundred at least on one day
but one hundred and eight we view with dismay.

Written 7/20/2018
High Temperature was xxx