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Conch Republic
The end of the Rainbow...
Endless opportunities.
Key West sets itself on a crash course
With fantasy and reality.
How can we live this way?
Once a safe haven for
Pirates, smugglers and America's undesirables,
Bone Island still perspires danger.
America's last bastion for bridge burners,
Key West strikes the match for us
And what we choose to do
With the flame is left up
To us and the winos.
Hemingway conjured memories here
While making new ones
And setting them to paper.
From the bars on Duvall
To boats heading toward the Dry Tortugas,
His words still imprint our fascination
With the Marquesas.
Corcoran and McGuane...Tennessee Williams
And Robert Frost.
Two Trumans. Capote and Harry.
All smitten with sunsets at Mallory Square.
And we revel in the dancing life.
How can we live this way?
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