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Show 40, Jeffries, Islamorada [Section 2] foolish taking a shower with a friend, and it was like the Florida Keys weren't even part of the United States, just a trust territory to be administered, and the great flag of the Keys, seen everywhere, was red over white, diver down. . . We've got to get the fifty-dollar raise, the young teachers were saying, doesn't a fifty-dollar raise seem reasonable and they were putting up their Monroe County 'Tiger' posters, and Clayton regaled these tigers with stories of his comparatively lavish salary back in Akron Well you've got to pay for sunshine, the old guard parried. That's interesting, Dory told them, back in Ohio when they talk about paying for sunshine the reference is to natural gas. So with a little encouragement they drew up a letter from the 'territorial forces of Key Largo, Plantation Key and Islamorada,' taking consideration of the ancient claims of Ponce de Leon, and the 250 years of Spanish ownership, and authorizing the Spanish ambassador to begin to process the return of the Florida Keys to Spain. He wrote a letter to the folks: Please send pictures, postcards, orchards, winding roads high in the Alleghenies; it's hard to explain but there's sort of a withdrawal symptom that hits you when you realize this could become home: you miss land. |
