SWELTERING
SWELTERING
In Los Angeles today it was the hottest it has been
on this date since the year
1885.
To celebrate I watched a group of children
wait in a single file line
to hit a paper mache batman
with a blue plastic bat
and feast on
the cheap candy
and tiny kazoos
that bled from his insides.
There was something in all of
this about false idols,
but I’ve lost it already.