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Claire Kinton | Ink & Ivy's avatar

Your campground management team deserves a very poor review! 😂 I'm firmly with you, give me crisp autumn mornings, warm blankets and bug-free walks any day. X

April Gough 🦄's avatar

They are so getting a poor review from me.

Rev. Kevin T. Taylor's avatar

Claire, that review would have citations for excessive heat, unauthorized blood sampling, cling-wrap humidity, and sandwich interference. Autumn really does feel like the competent replacement manager: crisp mornings, quiet trails, warm blankets, and no one inspecting your lunch.

Between Cities & Sentences's avatar

‘Wake me when September’s here’ Love it🧡

Rev. Kevin T. Taylor's avatar

April, turning heat, humidity, mosquitoes, gnats, flies, ticks, and the sun into terrible campground staff gives the poem such a playful engine. Each nuisance arrives with just enough personality to make summer feel like a badly run office with excellent branding and awful customer service. The turn toward autumn gives the ending its relief, as if September finally fires the whole management team and restores order to the woods. Thank you for giving summer discomfort a voice funny enough to make even the mosquitoes feel overqualified.