summer sunshine storms

yesterday, the sun shining hot on the pavement and the wind soothing the shaded parts of the city.
did you ever think about how the sun penetrates the buildings in the city. how only some parts of the sidewalk ever see sunshine. the avenues are lucky. they are lucky because the sun will shift from east to west affecting both sides of the street. but what about the streets. what if you are so far above houston that the sun never hits the southern part of your street. the buildings block the rays so that they only hit the north side, leaving trees and lives slighted from the sun. and what if you live in an apartment on the south side of the street with the window facing north, never to have the sun shine directly through your window. are you missing out? should you be paying less rent?

then the thunder hit.

loud, stopping everything as if to announce that the summer sunshowers have arrived. that it is now time where you will be walking along on a perfectly beautiful summer day, and then out of the blue, like a neighbor stopping by to get sugar, the thunder announces the rain that will drive you quickly into the dwellings that suffocate the streets. the cabs are filled, the trains get busier, the hot dog venders loose money.

but you know that it will soon be over and the sunshine will return momentarily. and hours later, after the sunshine has dried up the rain, you would have never even known that the rain had come.

did you happen to notice the sky last night as the thunder roared and the rain pelted?
it reminded me of the apocalypse.
as i have seen it in my dreams.