Dear Summer,
All in all, I find you to be an amiable season, a real stand-up spell of nice weather and general loveliness. I applaud you for your fight against the winter doldrums and admire your ability to make flowers grow.
Nonetheless, I have found that most of your actions are not entirely on the up-and-up. You’re a sneaky fellow, summer, and I think I’ve caught you out.
In the winter, the twats and the cunts and the arseholes are far too cold to carry on their crime sprees of rudeness, and the mouth breathers charging about can only suffocate under their scarves. In the summertime, these mutants of good manners are to be seen everywhere, picking the gravel out of their knuckles as they stomp onto the city buses, the remnants of a day’s wages not earned scattered on their track suits. Now, one might say that I could merely ignore these people and allow them to get on with their masturbatory daydreams of Page 3 nipples, if it were not for the smell and the sight of these cretins.
You see, summer, their smell can be masked in the winter by their layers of clothing, by the slowing of stink molecules by way of freezing. In the summer, the never oft-changed underpants can be sensed from a full 400 yards away as the accompanying lady-folk of these cross-eyed clans hike their skirts in order to display the full expanse of white flesh, like a day-old slice of blubber from Moby Dick – roughly the same size, roughly the same colour and certainly just as putrid.
And if it weren’t for the sights and smells of shite warmed on the streets, I also find your actions of hayfever most disagreeable. Evolution of the Plantae Kingdom would have never have allowed the self-same admirers of these plants to suffer such an awful illness. I disagree that these allergens might be pollen, I reckon they’re tiny molecules of asbestos and knives and death which lodge themselves in your nose and in your tear ducts for the sole purpose of making Life Not Worth Living. And you look upon us summer, with your warmth and your sunshine and your glee - and you cackle! You laugh at us and our suffering!
I know you make things pretty, I know you make things bright, I know that my standing out in you will make the consumption of vitamin D redundant. I also know, though, that you have an ulterior motive, an attempt to nullify all your good work in order to make the people of the Earth suffer greatly.
Bring on the barbecues and Pimms, baby!
Munky