Weather

I hadn’t heard thunder since before I moved here, and then I was in Tulsa all weekend and the weather had the gall to be sunny and breezy and 70 degrees the whole time, despite the thunderstorms and tornadoes it had been having for the past month straight, which is sort of like if you’re away in the war pining for your best girl back home, and she’s writing you these suggestive letters and it’s driving you crazy so you arrange this last-minute weekend leave and then she just spends the whole time sitting next to you on the porch swing drinking lemonade and talking about church and doesn’t even mention the letters, much less give it up. Then I come out of the subway today, and I’m trying to figure out what that sound is, and I realize it’s THUNDER and also there’s LIGHTNING, and I feel like I was just satisfied by someone who offered to love me long time, but it was so worth it.