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title: January
genre: verse

project:
    title: Autocento of the breakfast table
    css: autocento
...

January.  \
It's cold, and I don't like it.  \
I prefer warm weather, \
although I like sweaters.  They are the one \
warm spot in an otherwise [shitty][] season.  \
But fall is better sweater weather.  So be patient,

_patient_, \
while waiting for the end of January.  \
A change of season \
brings a change of mood along with it, \
although I never thought I'd be one \
to believe that [SAD][] junk about effects of weather---

weather!--- \
on a person.  Who becomes a patient \
just because of one \
[month of snow][]?  I did say of January: \
"It's cold, and I don't like it," \
but I hardly think it's fair, knocking whole seasons,

seasoning \
your conversation with demands for better weather.  \
(While I find it \
nearly impossible, it's my mission to be patient \
while waiting for the end of January.) \
Oh, but how the long nights do so [tax][] one!

One \
[warm spot][] in an otherwise shitty season--- \
all I ask, January, \
is one warm day.  Do you care whether \
I'm a person who becomes a patient \
in some psych ward?  This just about does it.

I.T., \
although I never thought I'd call one, \
is fair and patient \
when I call.  They talk with me, season \
my conversation of demands for better weather \
with an argument for the white beauty of January.

They know it's hard; they say each season \
has its detractors.  _One day_, they say, _the weather \
will be controlled---until then, patience in January_.

[shitty]: tapestry.html
[SAD]: seasonal-affective-disorder.html
[month of snow]: snow.html
[tax]: http://www.irs.gov/
[warm spot]: real-writer.html