Baby, it's Cold Outside

It's been cold the last few days. Not just here, but all across the country. We're not as bad as bad as some places. Tempetiture has been in the teens with single digit wind chill factors. Right now it is a comparable balmy 27 degrees outside. The first day of winter asserted itself this year, sort saying, "Global Warming? Hey God's in control of the weather, not Al Gore!"

Growing up it seemed to get this cold a lot. We used to have some snow in November and often by December there would be a white cover ground that would stay that way until sometime in March. It was on one of those days back then I wrote this parody.

WITHER WONDERLAND

 1959 (age 17)

Wind is blowin’,

Hear it hissing.

In the land,

Snow is glistening.

Oh, what a plight,

I’ll be blue tonight

From walking in a winter wonderland.

Broken down in the blue car***.

Here to stay is a new scar.

My feet are gray,

Near froze away.

From walking in a winter wonderland.

In the meadow,

You may find a snowman.

Brush it off,

It could be me.

With this snow so heavy

I can’t hardly see.

Later on, I’ll expire –

Fall into the briar.

I’ll lie there in pain.

My body will be maimed

From walking in a winter wonderland.

***I had a Royal Blue 1954 Ford at the time.

From:   Poetry Reading

Twenty-Six Poems

OJR

Agnes Manser, Sponcer

Pottstown, Pa.

1959

In the Collection, "Early in the Mourning"  (Poems 1954-1959)  Yes, that is my wife on the cover again.