the sun fell asleep

The sun fell asleep a little early today.  It forgot to wrap itself quite well enough in its asbestos blankets.  Can't really blame it, asbestos is kinda itchy.  Like wool, but for stars and planets and such.  That is what Venus and Mercury wear when they sun bathe.  Tricky thing about being a planet, you only can sunbathe half of yourself at a time.  I guess everyone has that problem.  I've heard mercury is close enough to the sun it doesn't get to turn over to much.  Must be pretty tan by now.  Mercury feels pretty good about itself with winter coming soon I'm guessing.  'cept I bet it must have codependency issues since it hangs out with the sun so much.  Anyways, the sun went to sleep a little early, and it forgot the blankets.  Near caught the whole sky on fire, but for the moon heading it off.  The moon is responsible like that.  As I was driving back to Iowa today, I saw the coals still burning before the moon felt good enough to come out for the night.  After the moon tucked the sun in a little better the clouds stopped freaking out and cooled off.  We all went to bed listening to Steppenwolf and jazz versions of Beatle's songs.  I got to be the designated driver for the evening, though, since the clouds were all asleep and the moon was fire fighting and the asbestos sheets could give me lung cancer or something.  Which is why I'm still awake to write this.   ()  ,   ; :   .  That sentence was empty.  Shame, with all that punctuation it could have been dang good.