These Are My JOTtings, Part #2

It's Hot in The South, Once Again!

It's hot in the South, once again,
attacking our health, foe or friend!
Our features from sweat now can blend.
To make us all cooler is quite a pretend.

It's hot in the South, don't cha know!
Let the mid-western dialect now grow,
that the coolness from there we may sow,
now here we could plant Minnasowta's good snow.

It's hot in the South, I declare
with humdiddity enough we can share!
Give your address, we'll mail it o'er there,
that you'll know what we feel. It's really quite fair.

It's hot in the South! Summer's long!
We can sing you a hot, sloppy song
'bout how work-clothes in suits feel just wrong,
but our BO can make us exceedingly strong.

It's hot in the South right as rain
for it comes after heat once again!
We live in our pools, it's quite plain,
while working from there we seem most insane!

by Jay O’Toole
on June 11th, 2024