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South of the South

from South of the South by David Dondero

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I was just a tender chicken
In the Florida rotisserie
My sweat’s basting me
Thunderstorms are chasing me
I bit into a lightning bolt
My own tongue began to smoke
I woke up with an empty mouth
Watch the watch tick backwards
South of the south
The CSX vibrates the tracks
Mighty roar it shakes the shacks
Purple sky and orange moon
Plants are confident in June
Humidity is thick
You can cut it with a knife
If you’d like to take a breathe here honey
I’m gonna cut you out a slice
So i developed gills
And i moved into the aquifer
Fell asleep in Wakulla Springs
Woke up down in Jupiter
Then i moved back to Deland
High into an orange tree
I was set for life with citrus
But my body couldn’t take this
Acidity
So i strolled down to Miami
Tried to find myself some friends
Found myself in South Beach
And met some mannequins
Who smelled of coconuts
And Coppertone
I like those smells real well
But as far as conversations go
I guess that it stopped at the start
Of the smell
It was Elvis and Sinatra
Now where’s your wallet man i got you
But if you’re poor like me
They let poor people like me be
They say that North Beach is a warzone
Highrise hotels hollowed out
But now we were living large
We were stepping out
In some thirty dollar beach front motel
South of the south
South of the south
Down in North Miami
South of the south
Me and my old lover Terry
We were practically married
So i jumped my pogo stick
All the way to Ybor City
Where they burned up a couple blocks
And to me seemed like a pity
That was once a Cuban district
And a center for the arts
Was now a mall like atmosphere
Homogenous and insincere
They burned its heart right out
Down south of the south
So i became a snake bird
An old swamp turkey
And some redneck tried to shoot me
Tried to make swamp turkey jerky
But i evaded all his bullets
And i flew into the Gulf
And i jumped upon a west wind
Out to a safer haven
Out near Alcaniz and Baylen
Down south
South of the south
The town of Pensacola
Riding bikes like we were kids
Over cobblestone and brick
A tabby fence
a moonlit bridge
There’s a sandlot shot-gun shack
Tin roof all rusted out
There’s a couch on every front porch
Flappin’ screen doors
Ants on the apple cores
Hawk’s boiled peanuts and more
Down South
South of the south
South of the south
South of Opelika
South of the south
Due south of Tuscaloosa
South of the south
South of ole Alpharetta
South of the south
South of South Carolina
South of the south

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from South of the South, released October 25, 2005

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