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            <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>
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