Weather measured by how many million people affected?

 How strange, how unscientific, how species-centric,

 like giving big storms peoples’ names—You rate!

 Why not pets’ names—Rover or Spot, Bossie or Butch?

 We do not have a storm god, but we name all his children.

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The weather girl in front of her map wore a short skirt

and a top that predicted a warm front passing through.

She was speaking in Spanish, so he put her on mute.

All this naming of stuff is pretty presumptuous, isn’t it?

Naming rights ownership. She was unnatural on camera.

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There was a cat somewhere in the apartment, he knew it.

He hated cats.  They did not care about the weather or

anything else.  She had said it was clear.  It was raining.

She didn’t know how to hold her shoulders and be shy.