He recently read 92 in the Shade,
a steamy novel of life in the 1960’s
in Key West. Today, it is 92 and it
is overcast actually, but the 92 is
the percentage of humidity, so it is
raining just without the drops, and
his upper Midwest town certainly is
not Key West hot; some having de-
scribed it as pretty much all wet
even when the humidity is closer to
60, which it is a lot of the time,
year round, even — dampish, kind
of like some of the people.