Women and the Clock

I’ve always heard that as we 
      “age,”
that big boiler room called
      “metabolism”
starts to slow . . . cool –
[Hey!  I can hear that ticking
noise as heat dissipates]

If that is so --
      why am I always so hot?
Copyright © | Year Posted 2006

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