But If You Try Sometime

I finally gave in to the heat, meaning  I passed out, after running in little hamster circles all week. It happened at 7 last night, when I suddenly had that feeling you get when you’re about to faint. “Just let me lie down,” is all you can think, which I well know as one who's been fainting since 2nd grade, especially in church. I used to think I was the next child saint, blessed with religious ecstasies.The heat's what did it this time -  that and the fact that ten days  ago my One-and-Only declared summer over and took our one air conditioner out of the bedroom window. Since it's so big - our window are super-wide - it weighs as much as a small car and so he's reluctant to put it back in.Thus have I been enduring long sleepless nights with the bottom sheet a pad of clay and the top sheet a moist damp snake. (The temps don't seem to affect him; champion snorers can't be kept from sleep since snoring is their chief hobby.)For four nights I lay there, my eyes drilled into the ceiling, until last night when for some reason the Sleep Angel descended and took me in her arms. I fell into the bed with its freshly laundered sheets, and with the two window fans blasting and a tiny personal fan inches from my nose, slept like the dead for 11 straight hours.

So I guess it’s like Mick Jagger said in the great old Stones song: You really can’t always get what you want.... but if you try  sometimes (pum) you just might find (pum, pum) you get what you need.

And now Mick himself as a  boy 19 tellin' it to us himself via YouTube:

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