sit on the steps
personal space is minimal
get baked on the sunnyside
with heat blazing in.
Humid air smells of
sweaty bodies and
strengthening odors
air vents sigh a few breaths
like a wheezing ashtmatic
a brief taste of how
it should be is worse
than constant heat.
Let the wisp of air
caress your throat
like fingers and hope
nobody will collapse.
Third world experience
in a first world nation.
Land of the
stubborn cross.
