SuMmeR

I feel like I've been here before, this sticky, sweltering, pounding heat-induced headache, Deja Vu.

I run through the sprinklers getting soaked.

I watch you watching me, wishing I had a beach bod like yours.

Teenagers meet and fall in love, leave beaus behind.

Summer ends in heartbreak.

Teens are dumb.

Should have listened when mama told you to stay away.

Sunlight permeates the body.

Vitamin D comes in capsules. Save yourselves the trouble of skin cancer.

People are less depressed during summer.

People from California are labeled as beach bums, dumb blondes, fakers, backstabbers, barbie dolls.

They get more sunlight. They are also on more anti-depressants.

Prisoners on death row wear suicide smocks, single pieces of material to prevent them from hanging themselves. The State wants to do the honors.

A prisoner on death row who swallows a blade is rushed to the hospital so doctors can fix them so they can soon be killed.

Why do we say "I love how you think you know what's best for me", when we really mean we hate that?

I can smell the salty nasal spray and feel it going up my septum, entering my throat. They told me it would help me breath better. It didn't. It just smelled bad.

They blot the pizza with napkins and say "look how oily it is!". But that's what pizza is, oily cheese.

I learned to swim in the ocean, floating on my back not realizing how far out I was, talking out loud practicing how to tell my father that I could swim.

Now they swim in kiddy pools with little arm floats.

In camp I had a whole kiddy pool to myself. Maybe I didn't have friends. But with a whole empty pool, who cares.

A great southern chef calls a man the 'N' word and suddenly her career is over.

Eating too much butter can kill a person.

Laying off the butter may kill you too.

People who commit suicide cannot donate their bodies to science.

Scientist should research why people kill themselves instead of looking for that elusive cure for cancer.

I bought shoes that contribute to the cause for breast cancer.

I am not a feminist, but I am a woman.

I should support the breast cancer awareness society.

I don't support many causes. 

Boy meets girl. Boy falls in love with girl. Girl scorns boy.

Summer heat makes people do dumb things.

Crush the ice, douse it in Sangria, and drink up.