Summer is
Summer is waking up with BRIGHT sun in your face no matter how early you awoke the sun was already up and inescapable it was sweltering hot and there wasn't anything to do but get up and jump in the water later in the day you had to seek some shelter, a van, a towel or even go home! Anywhere the sun wasn't shining But as soon as the sun went down you were out an amongst the rabble again! layers of sunburn about to reach critical mass we would all stop wearing wetsuits as soon as possible by August it had been months since you had worn one (the rash was almost gone) So everyday and from every direction you got just a little more burnt shorts and a tee shirt was the only clothes you could wear, you radiated heat The rumor was, if that last little flake of skin covering your nose came off the whole thing turned cancerous (to this day my dermatologist smiles when I tell him I spent my youth at the beach) the surf and weather They never changed the report on TV, in the paper or on...
