Oppressive heat defines these days

Plants parched by lack of rain

Suffer dehydration unto death

While we humans succumb

to a malaise of sloth

What we face in our world:

Rampant corporate greed at high levels

Unemployed workers as Labor Day nears

Farmers whose crops are a loss

Drought here

Floods in other lands

Wars and rumors of wars

All of this produces for us

Not the cooler air of September

Not clear rational minds

But rather ...

The Anguish of August

D.J. Hausman-Hill

Lititz