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---
title: January
genre: verse
id: january
toc: "January"
project:
title: Autocento of the breakfast table
class: 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
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