Heat Wave - Algebra Suicide

Sunday is a killer.

I want a festive time, a darling illness

Hands playing staccato violin, while the theme from Psycho fills the room

Instead, the day’s as vacant as an infant’s dumb stare

In Mexico, the toreadors are having their day, torturing bulls that would

rather be sleeping

But here, the only things being tortured are the lawns, wet down by their owners

'Til soggy and numb.

Yesterday, while shopping, I saw three men on crutches

Buying galoshes for the women they loved

But today the only thing I hear are the ethnics outside

They’re walking to church to bless baskets of eggs

Immobile things that will smell bad with time in this heat, this humidity

That has closed down even the stripper joints

It’s sad to consider how much sweat is wasted today, produced by our own simple

breathing

Even sadder is when the night turns so arid

Nothing can shimmy.

Nothing can dance