Aristotle believed. . . .the regions centered around the equator -
too hot to be inhabited -
he dubbed them the torrid zones.
We know them today as the tropics -
both share the equator as one of their boundaries.
The north torrid zone extends to the Tropic of Cancer.
The south reaches the Tropic of Capricorn.
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| visit the equator |
or whatever season it is for torrid and horrid.
A difference of one letter -
symbolizing one state of being and another.
When temperaments rage -
ranging from overly heated to dreadful horror.
The torrid horrid tropics -
halving the earth through the middle,
cutting through eleven terrestrial territories.
From Saharan desert to tropical rainforest -
all bound around the equator.
The tropics account for thirty six percent of earth's land mass -
home to about a third of the world's people.
Broken and breaking -
away and apart from heart and humanity.
Arid, acrid, acid -
sour, angry, bitter -
caustic, corroding, eroding.
Eating away at our interior -
to our very core -
the core of our being.
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