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Give Me Key West (And I'll Be a Cat​!​)

from There's No Place Like Know Where? by Run-On Sunshine

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I'm about to graduate college...now what? I know, I'll move to Key West! And to make it more affordable and dodge my student loans, I'll turn into a cat!!
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Want to be a cat down in Key West!
Polydactyl like lived with Ernest.
Only place can claim frost free US.
113 miles from the mainland stress.
90 miles Cuba from southernmost point I can bask, when I’m a cat.

Spring break’s my last chance to take time off.
Me and friends stay cheap in Marathon.
Semester’s end looms like a gaping maw.
So-called real life, what’s it got in store?
Paradise turns fear to solution:
Post-graduation, bring speciation.

Want to be a cat down in Key West!
A feline dream of what could be next.
Falling coconuts the only threat.
Storms turn to sun, Florida’s driest.
Short fur will do for coping when rare nights drop to 60 or less.

All the coolest cats live in Key West!
Conch Republic flirts with secession.
A black cat I can be free to be, drag darling: Barbara Stanwyck.

We’re in Mallory Square greeting sunset.
Try to focus on an ideal present.
Yet dreading what I’ve seen in forecast:
Back to Tampa, collide with a cold front.
Won’t last but why waste a single day?
To the tropics I will claw my way.

Want to be a cat here in Key West!
Never hurt a bird, feed from tourists.
Even cemetery’s a sweet place to rest.
At the foot of palm I’ll make my bed.
Though soon time for me bid you farewell, know I’ll come back…
And I’ll be a cat.

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from There's No Place Like Know Where?, released June 22, 2017
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Photo: Historic Key West cemetery.

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