Tired of feeling sleepy today - August 17th, 2019

Lashed with fatigue,

eye cannot fend off lethargy

hazy, hot, humid weather zaps

mental physical, and spiritual energy

even men of cloth

various and sundry clergy.

Undoubtedly summoning Parson Brown

currently out of season,

though stratospheric demand

for his person now

unprecedented as summer

dog days force physical slowdown,

nonetheless he would

experience immediate meltdown

booked solid throughout

"Winter Wonderland,"

when deep freeze

doth make clampdown,

no matter sung by masses

with uncertain reason

caroling 'bout said enigmatic figure

heard in every hamlet

or sprawling boomtown

belted clear as bell

o'er nor'easter howl

undeterred by polar vortex windblown

chilling atlas shrugged

off undaunted facedown

weathering arctic blast

making snow angels

comfortably numb jollity reverses frown

even elderly folks

sport about though grown

spry stick figures shoveling tunnel

courtesy white blanketed lockdown

"careful ma am" not

to fall on keister or crown.

Presence of said parson

linkedin with spate

of blizzard conditions and

Frosty the Snowman,

whose power to bring society

to standstill will not abate

proof positive to commander

in chief who cannot extricate

whether from climate, and trumpets

what he doth cogitate

dismissing global warming -

calling out "end of debate"

twill usher doomsday, cuz he

and trolling henchmen skate

on thin ice, and whose

dawdling crass, base

actions only accelerate

day of wreck conning

when most species will

lack mien ways to acclimate

all the more rhyming reason

to bid mortality adieu

and slumber permanently

battened down hatches

with me sigh ease oompa loompa mate.