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Tonight's Poet Corner: If You Can't Stand It...

If You Can't Stand It... by Belinda Roddie This late April heat is more suitable for the summer gods who sip lemonade through a snorkel, who dip bruised knees into soggy birthday cake, who chew confetti and laugh louder than fireworks on Pseudo-Patriotic Day. They convene over beer - suds sprout like their own beards. Fried delights swell their stomachs, where they carry music like unborn children in perfect pitch wombs. This late April heat sticks so sourly to me - gummy sugar and caramel apple grins spliced with edible cotton, carnival rides leaving straw tracks on my back and shoulders. I'm too lethargic to wave my rubber arms in the air - I'm too tired to wave my jump rope silly string arms in the air - I'm too tired to kiss you when Sundays drip into endless streams, when ice cream doesn't numb me enough, when hot showers chill the hard knock bones in my chest. I crave mountain air and ice in my teeth, froste

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