a heat dome
settled over the
lone star state
a relentless
brutality in
wavering lines
distorting horizons

wispy clouds
not the spun sugar
happy cottony
cumulus accumulate
more plumes of smoke
as the roadside
combusts ecstatically

daydreamdeliriums
melting down
into salt ringed
puddles of despair
inducing a humidity
in aching wet bulb
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