H.O.T.

I saw a man today.
He was walking from his truck, where he had tools.
It was 3 o'clock in the afternoon.
It looked like he was going to do maintainance on a vacant house.

Go inside.
go be cool inside.
get outta this heat.
dont work right now.
people are passing out.
having heat strokes.
stop working.
just..... stop working.

It was the HEAT of the afternoon.
the heat.
it was so hot.
so hot that you didn't even have to have the sun directly touching you to make you feel like your skin was burning. to make you feel like it was on fire.

I haven't felt that in a long time.
so hot, your head pounds, and your blood pressure goes up.
everything is under a magnifying glass.

a magnifying glass that burns ants in the sun.

and Im the ant.

So hot that it feels like you can't drink enough water.
you can't get your hands on enough ice.
all you can think about is swimming because running through the sprinklers wont satisfy the cool down your looking for.
so hot it doesn't matter that you have the air conditioning on in the house it still feels like Hades.
you still sweat in the creases of your arms and behind your knees when you sit down.
so hot that you promise yourself that instead of a hot shower **tonight! you take a COLD shower!**