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Songs for Seasonal Affective Disorder, Part Two

Picture courtesy of Ken McCown

I’ve been Dreaming About Deserts.

We’re breaking all sorts of records up here in Seattle with this never-ending rain, and there is no end in sight.

I am starting to seriously consider moving back to California.

I am even longing for Los Angeles.

Things have got to be terribly wrong if I am longing for Los Angeles.

(I’d have to be another person entirely to be able to fit in there.)

I want to feel the dry heat of driving through central California in the summertime on my way up to San Francisco, I want to squint into the sun while desperately needing the shade. I want to feel that hot pin prick on the back of my neck when I know it’s way too hot, the blown-out white and yellow all over everything of my childhood, the softness of skin polished by a day in the ocean and asphalt burning my bare feet.

I want to feel a Southern California night again.

Even the sound of rain on my window is starting to make me insane.

The darkness is simply too much, I am starting to lose it completely.

I am aching for the sun, God. Please give me back the sun.

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