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I was just a tender chicken in the Florida rotisserie

My own sweat’s basting me

Thunder storms are chasing me

I bit into a lighting bolt

My own tongue began to smoke

I woke up with an empty mouth

Watched the watch tick backwards

South of the south

The CSX vibrates the tracks

Mighty roaring shakes the shacks

Purple skies and orange moons

Plants are confident in June

The humidity — it’s thick, you can cut it with a knife

If you’d like to take a breath 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

Than I moved back to the land

High into an orange tree

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 I met some mannequins

Who smelled of coconuts and Coppertone

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 ya'

But now if you’re poor like me

They let poor people like me be

They say that North Beach is a war zone

High rise hotels hollowed out

But now we were living large

We were stepping out

Into a thirty dollar beach front motel

Down south of the south

South of the south

Down in north Miami

South of the south

My and my old lover Terry

South of the south

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

Homogonous and insincere

They burned it’s heart right out

Down south of the south

So I became the 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 heaven

Out near Alcaniz and Balin

Down south

South of the south

In the town of Pensacola

Riding bikes like we were kids

Over cobble stones and brick

They fenced moonlit bridge (?)

There’s a sandlot shotgun shack

Tin roof all rusted out

And there’s a couch on every front porch

Flapping screen doors

Ants on the apple cores

Pop’s Boiled Peanuts and more

Down south

South of the south

South of the south

South of Opelika

South of the south

South of Tuscaloosa

South of the south

Old Alpharetta

South of the south

South Carolina

South of the south

Down south of the south

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