This is always the saddest day of the year, when the cover goes on the pool and summer officially comes to a close in the Kalet house.
My brother came by this morning with his two nephews and we held the annual rites — pulling the cover on and tying it down.
What can I say except that, with today’s 80-degree temperature, it seems so incongruous.
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Hank Kalet is a poet and freelance journalist. He is the economic needs reporter for NJ Spotlight, teaches journalism at Rutgers University and writing at Middlesex County College and Brookdale Community College. He writes a semi-monthly column for the Progressive Populist. He is a lifelong fan of the New York Mets and New York Knicks, drinks too much coffee and attends as many Bruce Springsteen concerts as his meager finances will allow. He lives in South Brunswick with his wife Annie.
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