The Cooling Dawn

morning brought with it a cooling dawn, one which seemed to flush away all the heat accumulated during the night before, what with the haze of humidity & the global warming deep fry bringing his blood to boil & the sweat streaming down lost calories & a sticky, salty, slime, which had dripped in a stubborn pattern of droplets one after the other, in a campaign of annoyance, almost as if nature itself was trying to keep him awake--- but alas, the mind wins out in the struggle & as his years had brought him to this place where a hot day would inevitably demand complete exhaustion in the night, so did the night take him into a dreamy oasis & he found himself knee deep in the cerulean Mediterranean whose waves gently tickle his legs blazing from the heat but soon chilled like a glass left in the fridge for a bit to cool that drink in the blistering Mississippi afternoon in July.