<!DOCTYPE html> <!-- AUTOCENTO OF THE BREAKFAST TABLE --> <!-- vim: fdm=indent --> <html lang="en"> <head> <meta charset="utf-8"> <meta name="generator" content="pandoc"> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, user-scalable=yes"> <meta name="author" content="Case Duckworth"> <title>January | Autocento of the breakfast table</title> <link rel="icon" type="image/png" href="trunk/favico.png" /> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="trunk/style.css"> <script src="scripts/randomize.js" type="text/javascript"> </script> <script src="scripts/hylo.js" type="text/javascript"> </script> <!--[if lt IE 9]> <script src="http://html5shim.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/html5.js"> </script> <![endif]--> </head> <body id="january" class="autocento"> <article class="container"> <header> <!-- title --> <h1 class="title">January</h1> <div class="header-extra"> </div> </header> <section class="content verse"> <p><span class="line">January.</span><span class="line">It’s cold, and I don’t like it.</span><span class="line">I prefer warm weather,</span><span class="line">although I like sweaters. They are the one</span><span class="line">warm spot in an otherwise <a href="tapestry.html">shitty</a> season.</span><span class="line">But fall is better sweater weather. So be patient,</span></p> <p><span class="line"><em>patient</em>,</span><span class="line">while waiting for the end of January.</span><span class="line">A change of season</span><span class="line">brings a change of mood along with it,</span><span class="line">although I never thought I’d be one</span><span class="line">to believe that <a href="seasonal-affective-disorder.html">SAD</a> junk about effects of weather—</span></p> <p><span class="line">weather!—</span><span class="line">on a person. Who becomes a patient</span><span class="line">just because of one</span><span class="line"><a href="snow.html">month of snow</a>? I did say of January:</span><span class="line">“It’s cold, and I don’t like it,”</span><span class="line">but I hardly think it’s fair, knocking whole seasons,</span></p> <p><span class="line">seasoning</span><span class="line">your conversation with demands for better weather.</span><span class="line">(While I find it</span><span class="line">nearly impossible, it’s my mission to be patient</span><span class="line">while waiting for the end of January.)</span><span class="line">Oh, but how the long nights do so <a href="http://www.irs.gov/">tax</a> one!</span></p> <p><span class="line">One</span><span class="line"><a href="real-writer.html">warm spot</a> in an otherwise shitty season—</span><span class="line">all I ask, January,</span><span class="line">is one warm day. Do you care whether</span><span class="line">I’m a person who becomes a patient</span><span class="line">in some psych ward? This just about does it.</span></p> <p><span class="line">I.T.,</span><span class="line">although I never thought I’d call one,</span><span class="line">is fair and patient</span><span class="line">when I call. They talk with me, season</span><span class="line">my conversation of demands for better weather</span><span class="line">with an argument for the white beauty of January.</span></p> <p><span class="line">They know it’s hard; they say each season</span><span class="line">has its detractors. <em>One day</em>, they say, _the weather</span><span class="line">will be controlled—until then, patience in January_.</span></p> </section> </article> <nav> <div class="anchors"> <a href="backlinks/january.html" id="backlinks" title="Links to this page"> φ </a> <a href="index.html" id="coverlink" title="To cover">◊</a> <a href="#" id="randomizelink" title="ERROR">ξ</a> </div> </nav> </body> </html>