February is the worst month of the year but it's an honest month it's a month that doesn't hold up life any better than it really is I mean look around here these buildings they look like they don't even have any lights in them during a work day and uh something great happened here but it's over with and that's the way February is you can see it in the way people walk and how they look let's let's go just check out February this this says it all this has a spring-like or floral pattern on it but
somebody on this February day has abandoned it with its broken shaft like a desperate flinging off of something that's not true anymore the Expedition is getting desperate people are throwing things aside look around downtown on a February work day this looks like a place where people who are being punished or sent if you notice the way people cross the street in February it's different than in the summer nobody is tapping dancing or breaking into a Rogers and Hammerstein song it's their lunch hour and they're just barely able to get across the street and Hunker over
a bowl of chili carbohydrates are big this time of year also lotions because everybody is itchy and tired and irritable the land is tired in February most of the birds who can afford it have gone to Florida and the the trees that once cheered us they're hard to look at this month it's as if there is some Awful Truth out there in the trees it's hiding in the branches look at them something that's been bothering you for a long time is out there what is it you can almost see the shape of it when all
the color is gone but life is stripped down to the starkness of February to try to hide the bleakness of February man invented Valentine's Day and also Mardi Gras but then February answered back with another holiday Ash Wednesday what other month could host a holiday that's designed to remind us that we're all going to die that's February for you it is Bleak it is honest and it just tells you the way it really is my father used to have a saying that if you can live through February you'll live another year well the whole other
story I'm Kevin Killeen
