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Suffocating--High--HUMIDITY

On this
Suffocating, HIGH
Extreme--HOT-HOT-HOT
MINNESOTA--August-summer--========Bummer========
Day of---super-duper
High--Record
Setting
HUMIDITY

A person just FEELs so
Drained and-ZONKED
And--ZIPPED--with--Humidity--WHIPPED
And Just-Totally
Z---A---P---P---E---D
And
Exhaustingly
Defeatingly
Beat from the--HEAT
C---O---M---P---L---E---T---E---L---Y

This--HOT-HOT-HOT
S---I---Z---Z---L---I---N---G
AUGUST
This--Summer--in--cool
MINNESOTA

Has--got-Hotter--and--HOTTER
With
E--X--T--R--E--M--E
High--HUMIDITY
Don't ya
KNOW--A

As a--KID--Growing up in--MINNESOTA
Ice-Cream-at-The--DAIRY--QUEEN
Or--Root-BEER
Stand-was--the--Best--
Hot--humidity--Sure
Cool---CURE

And Cooooooled us
DOWN--and--made us
Happy--for
Ice-Cream-----SURE

We would turn--the--WATER
On--FULL-WATER--BLAST
On,the--Garden----HOSE

And get, each other
SOAKED--and-WET
In--full
CLOTHES

But the summer--MINNESOTA--High--Humidity
Is--hard--to
BEAT

WithOUT
Dairy-Queen
Mister-Misty--Dilly-ice-Cream-Bar
Or--a--Root-Beer--ice-cream-Float
Cool--refreshing
Summer---========FUNNER========
TREAT


By John D JUNGERS
11---AUGUST---2018


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Suffocating--High--HUMIDITY