Do You Feel Lucky?

(and feel free to comment! My older posts are certainly no less relevant to the burning concerns of the day.)

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Hot, Dry Skin?

Hot, dry skin? Rough hands?

Rough hands, sliding up and down your hot, dry skin? Parched tongue, hot, flitting under the ridge of your white teeth, then gliding back along the top of your hot, parched, pouting bottom lip?

Eyes wide, pupils dilating?

Prickling heat like a fever coming on, not rising from inside but settling in from all over your whole skin at once? Breath coming in short, ragged gasps, counterpointing the birdlike thumps of your quickening pulse? Involuntary, soft sighing moans?

The room, slowly spinning in waltz-time, your vision narrowing down upon the one thing left that's grown to fill your mind?

A sudden overpowering sensation, taking hold of you? Fits of tormented, spasmodic bucking and thrashing? Loud groans and yells that sound equal parts panicked and triumphant?

All that sounds pretty alarming! You might want to see a doctor or something.

Try drinking some water first. Two glasses of water. Some of that's definitely dehydration symptoms. At least half of that sounds like dehydration to me. Not sure about the yelling. Drink a glass or two, slowly, and see how you feel.

1 comment:

dogimo said...

See, I'm not sure if this is a poem or a regular post.

Quite possibly it's neither. I admit the possibility.