(My first in what I hope to be many Write for Ten exercises.)
8:57 a.m. - 9:07 a.m.
it’s been snowing for days on end, now. any shared joy in the right to complain has been crushed by the sheer breadth of this particular cold snap, stretching from the eastern seaboard right on down to louisiana and florida.
in my home state, the heart of it all, don’t you know, resilience to the cold is bred into the people the same way melanin levels protect the dusky skin of lovely, lucky Equator-dwelling populations. last night, while smoking a cigarette under a starless black sky, the kind that bounces the chill right back into your bones, i saw a young man bundled into a wool peacoat, thick scarf wound twice around his neck, trudging through the snow in madras plaid shorts, green and pink.
that’s ohioans for you.
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