The fall air lightened by lower humidity and a genuinely stiff breeze <br />Actually provided me with some comfortable moments for a change <br />The summer sun had been extremely hot and perhaps has contributed <br />To my overall mood being a tad more depressed than need be <br />Reflecting back over the uneventful dog days of July and August <br />I realize how much energy I wasted and expended just trying to remain cool <br />On this the final day of my last September <br />As the distant sun now speeds across the deep blue and practically perfect sky <br />Leaving only an array of multi colored ice particles streaked into the fabric <br />Of the sparse thin clouds and flattened ozone <br />Summer’s signature or its signing off of sorts on the high cost of air-conditioning <br />And the obliviously impatient attitude it has developed for spending too much time <br />In one place for long periods of time <br />Not unlike me who now has become so short I am able to predict accurately <br />Right down to the second <br />That moment when I too will depart this hemisphere for the next….<br /><br />Ted Sheridan<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/depleting-my-remaining-layers-of-ozone-pt-in-a-series-of-poems-leading-to-my-death/
