{"id":962,"date":"2013-07-19T12:00:13","date_gmt":"2013-07-19T17:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/?p=962"},"modified":"2013-07-19T12:00:13","modified_gmt":"2013-07-19T17:00:13","slug":"poem-surfing-heat-wave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/19\/poem-surfing-heat-wave\/","title":{"rendered":"POEM: Surfing The Heat Wave"},"content":{"rendered":"

Surfing The Heat Wave<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

While surfing the heat wave<\/span>
\nI peer into my horror scope<\/span>
\nIs life a beach?<\/span>
\nWhat is there to sea?<\/span>
\nThe age of Aquarius in retrograde<\/span>
\nMercury rising<\/span>
\nIs it all a mirage?<\/span>
\nWhew, is this global warming<\/span>
\nOr am I really this hot?!<\/span>
\nThe err conditioning on the fritz<\/span>
\nNature conspiring with scientists<\/span>
\nChanneling the whether<\/span>
\nThose men in white coats<\/span>
\nWill get me carried away<\/span>
\nWhat do we need?<\/span>
\nFor everybody to “NO”<\/span>
\nYou don’t throw stones in greenhouses<\/span>
\nJust by entering our atmosphere<\/span>
\nYou’d get all burned up too<\/span>
\nIt’s only meteor logical<\/span>
\nYet they persist<\/span>
\nWhining and dying<\/span>
\nCrying out, “The sky is not falling”<\/span>
\nEnd this “Oh zone” thing<\/span>
\nWell, I’ve taken my last chill pill<\/span>
\nPopped in my mouth<\/span>
\nToo many times<\/span>
\nTheir clenched fists<\/span>
\nCounting their green<\/span>
\nTo save them<\/span>
\nWile the rest of us<\/span>
\nPatronized<\/span>
\n“Don’t sweat the small stuff, sunny”<\/span>
\nWell, I’m not buying it!<\/span>
\nAnd all I get<\/span>
\nIs this evil gaze thing<\/span>
\nAt this point I’d settle<\/span>
\nFor icy stares<\/span>
\nAnd climb it<\/span>
\nSkeptics<\/span>
\nYou can bank on it<\/span>
\nUntil you lose your balance<\/span>
\nAnd fine yourself<\/span>
\nWith polar caps<\/span>
\nIn your ass<\/span>
\nHaving iced them<\/span>
\nWading for<\/span>
\nA rising tide<\/span>
\nTo raze your shit<\/span><\/p>\n

This one is for all of you out there withstanding the latest heat wave, and, of course, for those climate skeptics who occasionally lose their cool too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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