If people could petition for equality
of weather, as with rights or wealth,
if all the warmth in Florida was
averaged out with Juno's fierceness
to the north,our friends up there could
thaw a little in the welcome change,
and we would have to dig out coats
from where they've slept in hibernation
out of sight all winter. The Yankees might,
you know, sign up for that, drag out a soapbox,
make a speech, pay lobbyists to shake
their fists demanding that's it's so unfair
for Florida to hog the sunshine and the
warmth, and if we kept insisting it was just
good sense for us to live here, not a slight
on northern climes at all, they just might reinstate
the draft and confiscate some surfers,
make them to shovel snow, a human tax
for wearing flip-flops and relaxing while
through no fault of our own, or theirs,
they're buried, flooded, blown away.
(c) Ellen Gillette, 2015
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