Whenever the heat kicks up,
the thick kind of heat that forces you to breathe more deeply,
I think about something I heard a while back.
About how you have all these toxins in your body,
especially when you’re sick,
and you can sit in a sauna or steam up the bathroom with the door closed and the tub running hot,
and it’ll help pull out whatever’s hurting you, right through the pores in your skin.
So sometimes in the summer I reach for a fan or I blast the AC but other times,
I let myself swelter,
and hope to sweat out whatever it is that’s poisoning me.