Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for September 27, 2020

Breathe deep the gathering gloom,

Watch lights fade from every room.

Bedsitter people look back and lament,

Another day’s useless energy spent.

Impassioned lovers wrestle as one.

(Wait, what am I lamenting here, anyway??)

I dunno about getting any warmer. In the very early 1960s it got so hot in Columbus, Ohio that people put cooking oil on the hoods of their black cars and literally fried eggs in the noonday sun. We also had warm rains. The rains coming down were white and as warm as a kid’s shower. We were allowed to play out in the warm rains. I have not experienced a warm rain like that in the US since.

Well, hail man!

And we change from trochees to iambs . .

IOW, chill!

We didn’t have much of a summer, maybe 4-5 hot days total. However, we also didn’t get any rain for eight weeks and fire season started early and awful.

The thunder roared, the lightning flashed, those beans you ate, will give you gas – Burma Shave

Here, in pieces, lies Fred Twain, Who tried to catch, A moving train. The train caught Twain, As you can see, Instead of one Fred, Now there’s three.

I’m sorry. I can’t allow Fall to come yet. I haven’t finished my Summer projects yet.

Better stick to comic gags Jimmy, and leave the poetry to the pros.

Way to leave the final rhyme to the imagination.

Willie Shakespeare he’s not but Jimmy J has that certain je ne sais pas !

“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.” Albert Camus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoFjdmNLuCQ

“And deliver all from Summer/Which was hotter’n’ell.”

And I like to think “burnt-out cell” is a reference to everyone flooding the Internet with phone pics of Autumn leaves.

Its going to be 100+ in parts of the San Diego region this week. Our summer is not over.

“Well… Well… Hm, let’s see… Oh, yeah! Well!” ☺

There is an early winter coming this year here in N. Alabama. As much as a month earlier that last year based on average Heating Degree Days. Summer has been cooler and wetter.

Bu in the Bay St. Louis area it is always hotter.

still getting up to 100 F in AZ in late September!

My favorite day is the day after christmas. “I’ve got to admit it’s getting better, a little better all the time (It can’t get no worse).”

That last line didn’t rhyme…

The Moody Blues Days Of Future Past.

…with a nod to Nipsey Russell…

Yay, Moody Blues! The first poem I learned start to finish.

“And deliver us from summer’s heat, which has gotten ridiculous”!No argument here. We’re still seeing temps near 90 on our mountain. Pre-2000 we would see maybe 2 or 3 days over 90F and by September would be solidly in the 70s for high. First freeze should have been 2-3 weeks ago. This year we’ve dropped below 40 maybe 3 nights, most nights low doesn’t get below 55. We have also broken about 20 record high temps this year. Also less than 2" of rain all spring/summer when we should have seen close to 20".Global warming sucks but at least our mountains haven’t seen the bad fires plaguing the rest of the SW US.!!!