I was due to go to Tabasco for a Poetry/Painting exhibition where poets submit poems and artists create paintings inspired by them, but I think I must give it a miss and let my poem go on without me.

Here is a quote from a story about the heat wave here in Mexico whose link is given below.  “A report identified Veracruz (10 deaths), San Luis Potosí (four deaths) and Tabasco (four deaths) as the hardest-hit states.” See more from the report HERE. (For some, that link may hit a paywall and not be viewable. But the headline makes its content clear: “Mexico is about to see its highest temperatures ever, experts warn”.)