Cover Up

Austin Price, Editor in Chief

The breath of winter’s lungs, chills us to the bone

The cold is prickly, making the body weak and feeble

Despite our menagerie of fabric draped upon us, with stitching keeping us concealed, our delicate flesh protrudes out, adjusting the texture of our usually smooth skin 

The air exposes us 

Physically 

Mentally 

Emotionally 

Spiritually 

We are at the mercy of mother nature’s icy breath 

Our bodies stiffen, like corpses embarking on rigor mortis 

Our movement is no longer directed by cognitive signals, it is fueled by desperation 

Momentum, replaced with haste 

Anticipation, replaced with fear 

Survival becomes our motivation 

The inherit, primal desire to self soothe, self heal, and self preserve, keep us moving 

We are the apex predator 

Leader of the food chain

And the trickster of creation 

Our intelligence has kept us alive

The ability to outsmart our adversaries remains our greatest strength

But it also bleeds into our greatest weakness, arrogance 

We are arrogant to the weather 

We are arrogant to the climate 

We are arrogant to the omnipotent power of Mother Nature, the alpha of all beings 

Our arrogance leads us to stupidity, as we become obtuse to the intensity of Mother Nature’s ever-changing personality

As the winter comes, dispersing it’s deadly, bitter air with the vengeance of a demon, I leave you with this warning 

Cover up, arrogant perishable predators

It’s your only hope