keeping cool
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		chill kills -- heat kills -- chill in fever kills
		in chicago heat heat heat killed

		a damp suffocation a-go-go
		the coolest customers are now in the city morgue
 
		some barely in their forties
		more die of heat than of flood or tornado

		doing the dishes in a/c'ed reprieve am wondering
		who keeps their ice cream in the morgue
		someone who works there

		imitation vanilla -- genuine double chip chocolate --
		rocky road


			Marek Lugowski
			7 August 1999
			Cincinnati, Ohio