Turtles at the End

Finales are like turtles:
they are overthought unless 
it's ninety nine degrees
humidity same
and the impulse to drop
four letter words fades
and instead the shade offers
a breath of muck air
mostly water
providing the eyes with their vacancy
so that these reptiles can live 
for the mere cost of the pool
for weeks unending 
spending their philosophy 
all the way down.