--- title: January genre: verse id: january toc: "January" project: title: Autocento of the breakfast table class: autocento ... | January. | It's cold, and I don't like it. | I prefer warm weather, | although I like sweaters. They are the one | warm spot in an otherwise [shitty][] season. | But fall is better sweater weather. So be patient, | _patient_, | while waiting for the end of January. | A change of season | brings a change of mood along with it, | although I never thought I'd be one | to believe that [SAD][] junk about effects of weather--- | weather!--- | on a person. Who becomes a patient | just because of one | [month of snow][]? I did say of January: | "It's cold, and I don't like it," | but I hardly think it's fair, knocking whole seasons, | seasoning | your conversation with demands for better weather. | (While I find it | nearly impossible, it's my mission to be patient | while waiting for the end of January.) | Oh, but how the long nights do so [tax][] one! | One | [warm spot][] in an otherwise shitty season--- | all I ask, January, | is one warm day. Do you care whether | I'm a person who becomes a patient | in some psych ward? This just about does it. | I.T., | although I never thought I'd call one, | is fair and patient | when I call. They talk with me, season | my conversation of demands for better weather | with an argument for the white beauty of January. | They know it's hard; they say each season | has its detractors. _One day_, they say, _the weather | will be controlled---until then, patience in January_. [shitty]: tapestry.html [SAD]: seasonal-affective-disorder.html [month of snow]: snow.html [tax]: http://www.irs.gov/ [warm spot]: real-writer.html