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Lily Zhu

Sweet Relief

Every soul on Earth craves for it

on a boiling hot summer’s day.

Eight-year-olds on playground

swings chant, “I scream, you scream,

We all scream for ice cream!”

What do we all find

so fascinating about this

wondrously sweet delight? After all,

It melts once exposed to the

warm, humid air. It does not

Cool me down. I continue,

unwillingly, to

fume uncomfortably. I squirm

in the suffocating environment;

I long for the sweet, chilly

desert. Yet I know it will not

comfort me.

Observing the children

on the playground,

now chasing each other wildly

in a game of tag,

I can’t help but

wonder how they can stand it.

Oh, that’s right.

The ice cream truck is on its way.

[TABLE OF CONTENTS, LHS CLASS OF 2013 EDITION]