But It’s a Dry Heat

BUT IT’S A DRY HEAT

Oh, It’s summer in the desert

Snowbirds have made their retreat

It’s a hundred in the shade

But say hey – it’s a dry heat!

Lizard’s wearing sandals

Rattlesnake’s sporting shades

Coyotes sit under a bush

Sipping their pink lemonade

Miz Gopher wears a sunbonnet

It matches her plaid frock

Jackrabbit’s roasting wieners

On a broiling hot flat rock

Centipede puts sunscreen

On each of his hundred legs

Rhoda Roadrunner is sad

She’s laying hard-boiled eggs

Cattle tank’s a sauna

Donkeys are having fun

Buzzard who prefers tartare

Finds his dinner is now well-done

Oh, it’s summer in the desert

Snowbirds have made their retreat

It’s a hundred in the shade

But say hey – it’s a dry heat!

Special Note to our readers- Patricia Tolley passed away peacefully on July 28 at the age of 97. Way to Go, Pat’s poem about the loss of five dear one, ends with this stanza:

None of us knows how it will be

None of us can choose

But those we love -gone before

Can show us the way to go

Thank you for your wise and whimsical words, Patricia Tolley