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February

by SPOOKTACULAR

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So I as I write this it’s like 40 degrees out, and for the end of February (leap day no less) it’s pretty nice. It’s been a fairly mild winter in Chicago, but even still the sunshine and relatively warm temps are a welcome reprieve from the grey gloom that blankets the Midwest throughout every winter. That gloom seems to be the worst around February.

I'll bet that February isn’t your favorite month. But those infrequent beautiful days that pop up in that godforsaken month are pretty sick. I love how every sidewalk and a trail blossoms with people who are desperate to fiend their Vitamin D addictions. However, increasingly these warm winter days have been filling me with unease.

The climate crisis is here and it’s going to get much much worse before it gets better. Now I know my audience, and I know that the few people who read this will probably not find that sentence very controversial. However, even though most of us intellectually acknowledge the effects of a dying planets, the truth is we are still mostly removed from the visceral reality of it. In Chicago, beaches are eroding and weather is getting slightly more extreme, but I live in a region where massive disasters such as bush fires, floods and hurricanes aren’t an immediate concern and thus climate change can still feel like a abstract threat; bad, yet distant.
But unseasonably warm February weather, as nice as it is, forces me to face the tangible changes around me. That’s what fills me with unease.

Now I know climate is not weather and I know a 55 degree day in February isn’t necessarily a harbinger of doom. But the planet is warming and, even if that awareness is misplaced, nice days in February are warm and noticeable.

The song February is about taking a walk on one of those days and being anxious because of the climate shit. I’m not the best at writing overtly political poetry and thus I filter it the personal perception. However, the song does end with an explicit political message.

We’re tired of the cars on the freeway
We’re tired of the fires and of the heatwaves
We’re tired of the future that we see:
The warnings of a warm February.



Stay warm out there folks

Jon

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released February 29, 2020
Spooktacular is Jon Stephen Kheri and Alec

They wrote and produced this record.

Shout out Ryan Rambow

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