[lit-ideas] Re: Summer time in the city, back of my neck's gettin' dirty and gritty
- From: "Julie Krueger" <juliereneb@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2007 23:39:47 -0500
At 3:30 p.m. it was 105 here (before humidity/heat index) ....It's only
supposed to get worse here over the next couple weeks (echo) .... Why don't
I live on the beach???
I was going to post something about politics and something about literature
but my brain is so sotted with sweat that I can no longer think about
whether or not I can think. Maybe they're doing better in Canada....
Julie Krueger
On 8/12/07, Mike Geary <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> It's 10:45 p.m. and 92 degrees F (33 C). All next week it's supposed to
> just get worse and worse. I hate my existence. This is not what God had in
> mind for me. I'm looking for the asshole who stole my place in the world.
> Somebody in San Francisco is my guess. If you didn't have to be a
> trillionaire to live there, that's where I'd be. I'd walk along the beach
> everyday looking for rhymes like 'peach' and 'reach' and 'teach' and
> 'beseech' and 'preach' and 'impeach' -- yes impeach! Yes, that's the word
> of the day. Impeach the bastard, yes! Ah, but that's just San Francisco
> talk, down here it's all about -- hmmm, how odd. I've lived here 52 of my
> 63 years, but I don't know what the talk is here anymore. I'm not really
> here anymore. Mostly it's just my kids and grandkids and a some friends.
> All the rest is just them. People who have even less curiosity about me
> than I do about them. And so it goes. Another hot summer in Memphis.
>
> Mike Geary
> Memphis
>
> Btw, does anyone have any idea what Donal's btw in his last post was all
> about??? I would ask him, but I'm afraid he might answer and my life is
> complicated enough as it is and it's just too damn hot to try to make sense
> of anything.
>
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