けふの暑さはたばこやにたばこがないtoday's heat — the tobacco shop has no tobacco

今日の暑さときたら、たばこ屋にたばこがないほどだ。暑さの言い方の可笑しさの奥に、物の乏しい時代の暮らしがのぞく。一服もままならない夏の日。Today's heat is so fierce that even the tobacco shop has run out of tobacco. Behind the comedy of measuring heat that way, one glimpses the scarcity of an age when goods were few. A summer day when he cannot even manage a smoke.