Spring,

everyone’s favorite season,

with its perfect warm and breezy weather,

not too hot, not too cold,

but the perfect combination of bright flowers and pollen filled trees,

For us, Vegas residents, we look at your perfect description of spring and laugh.

We laugh a hearty laugh.

We think, “oh how stereotyped this spring season is”.

To us spring is the warning before a nuclear bombing.

Reminding us that our spring is early summer.

Early summer with blistering dry heat that we soldier through.

The angry heat we never get used to.

The heat that makes us question why we live here.

Bright flowers? Please.

We don’t have spring, we have summer.

Always summer.