The sun rises
and it calls and it pleads
I hear its pleas
To surrender our bodies to its glare, its heat
To the heat of the summer beat
The lazy pulse that summer keeps
The stillness of the summer seas
Summer infuriates; it unsettles, spreads unease
Whores pace impatiently as summer days creep
Restless, as restless as they’ll ever be
Hair clings, clothes stick, they’re battered they’re beat
Tempers burn high as though powered by sun’s peak
Fury breeds with no comfort breeze
Everything fevered by this tiresome heat
Irritable: because they suffer they seethe
Irrationality like disease unleashed
We blink, drowsed and out of reach
Unplugged, drugged by humidity
That saturates the air and seeps through my skin
The summer sweats and this stickiness we breathe
We shift our bodies; we struggle we heave
Our movements forced against another gravity
Treading through waters so dense so deep
Everything slows: clocks slow, as do we
We lie half dead: drenched, soaked, drained, unclean
We barely speak, suffocated, blind are we
Grasp nothing, nothing, nothing is clear
Our minds unfocused, we’re borrowed, they’re leased
You speak
Words delivered to me in beads
Speak, breathe, Speak, breathe
You speak and you abandon breathe
Breath heavy, dense, words slow they tease
For we melt in this stifling heat
We swelter into nothing but meat
But days are open to possibilities
We’ll lie here
and tomorrow we’ll perish, cease, no longer be
Seized by the gods of discomfort and glee
So we lie here
And we’ll just keep lying here
For we are free
For now, free
We’ll lie here free
